Sarah, the Quaker, to Lothario. Lately deceased, on meeting him in the shades

People / Organizations

• Beckingham (Author)
• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed [by T. Read?] for A. Moore, near St. Paul's, and sold at most of the pamphlet-shops in London and Westminster, 1729. The third edition, with additions.; ..

Added name

Read, T., active 1723-1758, printer, attributed name.

Publication year

1729

ESTC No.

T118110

Grub Street ID

169676

Description

8 p. ; 2°.

Note

Anonymous. By Charles Beckingham

Verse - "No respite from my tortures can I have?"

On Spencer Cowper, Justice of Common Pleas 1727, who was acquitted of the murder of Sarah Stout in 1699 (Foxon)

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious; printing attributed to T. Read by A.B. Bricker, "Who was A. Moore?" in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 110:2 (June 2016), 181-214; Bricker does not name this edition, but does name the first two, on the basis of the headpiece, and this edition has the same headpiece

Price below imprint: (Price sixpence.); Signatures: A-B]2.

Uncontrolled note

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