The Woman's advocate or The baudy batchelor out in his calculation: Being the genuine answer paragraph by paragraph, to the batchelor's estimate plainly proving that marriage is to a man of sense and oeconomy, both a happiner and less chargeablo state, than a single life. Written for the honour of the good wives, and pretty girls of old England

People / Organizations

• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed for")

Imprint

London : Printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's, M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]

Publication year

1729

ESTC No.

T10411

Grub Street ID

157668

Description

6p. ; 2°.

Note

A prose dialogue between an extravagant batchelor and a sensible woman

'The batchelor's estimate' is by Edward Ward

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious.

Uncontrolled note

See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43