Venus la populaire, ou Apologie des maisons de joye. Traduite de l'anglois

All titles

• Venus la populaire, ou Apologie des maisons de joye. Traduite de l'anglois
• Apologie des maisons de joye
• Modest defence of publick stews. French

People / Organizations

• Phil-porney. (Author)
• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed for")

Imprint

A Londres [i.e. Netherlands?] : chez A Moore, M. DCC. XXVII. [1727]

Added name

Ogle, George, 1704-1746, attributed name.; Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733, attributed name.; Moore, A., active 1721-1747, bookseller.

Publication year

1727

ESTC No.

T115816

Grub Street ID

167503

Description

XII, 130 p. ; 8°.

Note

A translation of 'A modest defence of publick stews', which is variously attributed to George Ogle and Bernard de Mandeville

Dedication signed: Phil-pornix

The imprint is fictitious; possibly printed in the Netherlands

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious

There are three editions with identical title, imprint, and signatures (ESTC T115816, N504776, and N504777). All have a winged head as a vignette on the title page, but with clear differences among them; there are also differences in the setting of some text, in the headpiece on p. [III], and in the tailpiece on p. 130

In this edition, there is only one layer of wings in the title vignette, and the face and wings are largely in outline, with no infill; the third line of the quotation from Seneca on the title page reads "extinguitur."; the headpiece on p. [III] is composed of type ornaments; the penultimate line of text on p. [1] ends "années"; and the tailpiece on p. 130 consists of two seated winged cherubs with musical instruments

Signatures: *]6 A-H]8 I1.

Uncontrolled note

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