The life of the late celebrated Mrs. Elizabeth Wisebourn, vulgarly call'd Mother Wybourn; containing secret memoirs of several ladies of the first q-y, who held an assembly at her house; together with her last will and testament. By Anodyne Tanner, M.D. author of the P-c-l sch-e, &c. and one of her physicians in ordinary

People / Organizations

• Anodyne Tanner (Author)
• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's, [1721?]

Publication year

1721

ESTC No.

T65352

Grub Street ID

290264

Description

vii, [1], 54 p. ; 8°.

Note

Anodyne Tanner is a pseudonym

A satire. "A purportedly biographical account of the notorious London bawd [Elizabeth Wisebourn]"-- Smith, Sharon. "Defoe's The Complete English Tradesman and the Prostitute Narrative: Minding the Shop in Mrs. Elizabeth Wisebourn, Sally Salisbury, and Roxana." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, vol. 15 no. 2, 2015, p.33

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious. See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43

Conjectural date from the British Library Catalogue. The third edition is dated 1721 (ESTC T169085); "P--c--l Sch--e [Policital scheme]" -- British Library Catalogue

Headpieces; tailpieces; woodcut initial. Headpiece on B1r includes initials "F H"

Below imprint: (Price one shilling.); Signatures:A-G]4] H]4(-H4?)

Uncontrolled note

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