Full title: The batchelor’s directory, or, The maid’s defence : being a treatise of the excellence of marriage : of its necessity, and the means to live happily in it : together with the apology of the women against the calumnies of the men …
Author(s): Anonymous
Location:
Harvard University – Houghton Library, Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson, Early Modern Books and Manuscripts; Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Shelf mark:
Houghton *EC65.A100.694b2
Publication information:
London : Printed for Richard Cumberland … and Benjamin Bragg …, 1694.
Notes:
Dedication copy with inscription “Jo. Meres 1694 Dono Authoris”, heavily annotated with corrections to the text, most likely by the unknown author, as they are reflected in later editions (including the removal of the subtitle, which is crossed off in manuscript in this copy), it is likely that the author, disgruntled by “the mistakes of the printer” (as referred to in the Dedication), amended this copy specifically for the dedicatee, also inscribed: Wheadon’s book, 1750.
Digital copy:
None available
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