The Night-walker: or, Evening rambles in search after lewd women, with the conferences held with them, &c

All titles

• The Night-walker: or, Evening rambles in search after lewd women, with the conferences held with them, &c
• Evening rambles in search after lewd women; The Night-walker

People / Organizations

• J. Orme ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for James Orme, in St. Bartholomew's-Hospital, 1696-1697.

Added name

Dunton, John, 1659-1733.; Orme, James, bookseller.

Publication year

1696-1697

ESTC No.

P2681

Grub Street ID

56304

Description

2 v. ; 4°.

Note

Edited and largely written by: John Dunton

Consists of interviews with prostitutes, probably imaginary, throughout the socio-economic range

Below title: "To be publish'd monthly, 'till a discovery be made of all the chief prostitutes in England, from the pensionary miss, down to the common strumpet."; Title repeated as caption at head of first page of text

Running title recto has date of issue

Imprints include year of publication

Below imprint: Price 6 d

Each title page includes a satiric dedication, followed in each issue by an "Epistle dedicatory"

Most numbers include final advertisement leaf for new books

At end of last issue (April 1697): "Some particular reasons have occasioned the change of the person concerned in this undertaking, but 'tis hoped without any disadvantage to it or to the publick ..."

Description based on: [Vol. 1] (September 1696); Latest issue consulted: Vol. 2 (April 1697)

Uncontrolled note

T.p. in copy cataloged lacking; replaced by MS. facsimile; title and imprint verified from later numbers