The life of Lavinia Beswick, alias Fenton, alias Polly Peachum: containing, her birth and education. Her Intrigues at a Boarding School. Her first Acquaintance with a certain Portugueze Nobleman. The Time when, and Person to whom she bestow'd her first Favours. A particular Account of her Conversation with a Mercer, now living near the Royal Exchange. Or the Portugueze Nobleman being confin'd in the Fleet, and the honourable Method she took to gain him his Liberty. A Copy of Verses which she composed on a Fop, which conduced to her Acquaintance with Mr. Huddy, for whose Benefit, at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market, the first appear'd on the Stage. A particular Account of a Benefit she shar'd with one Mr. Gilbert, a few Week-After Mr. Huddy's, at the same Theatre. Her first Admittance into the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields: Her Weekly Salary, both now and then; and the Time when, and the Cause why, it was raised. Of her Wit gaining her more Lovers than her Beauty. The Horse-Cou

People / Organizations

• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed for")

Imprint

London: printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's; and sold by the booksellers and pamphlet-shops in London and Westminster, [1728]

Publication year

1728-1728

ESTC No.

T66505

Grub Street ID

291255

Description

[4],48p. ; 8⁰

Note

P. 11, line 5 ends: carelessly. Variant: p. 11, line 5 ends: care-.

With a half-title.

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious.

Price from imprint: price One Shilling.

Uncontrolled note

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