Chickens feed capons: or A dissertation on the pertness of our youth in general, especially those trained up at tea-tables; with The true Picture of a Petit Maitre, and a Modern fine Lady; Some Hints on Abuses in Education; not forgetting the Insolence and Scorn with which the generality of young Persons treat their Elders and Betters. Also A very remarkable Tragical Cafe, which may serve as a Warning to Persons in Years, how they give the Staff out of their own Hands, and leave themselves to the Mercy of others. Written by a friend of the person injured

All titles

• Chickens feed capons: or A dissertation on the pertness of our youth in general, especially those trained up at tea-tables; with The true Picture of a Petit Maitre, and a Modern fine Lady; Some Hints on Abuses in Education; not forgetting the Insolence and Scorn with which the generality of young Persons treat their Elders and Betters. Also A very remarkable Tragical Cafe, which may serve as a Warning to Persons in Years, how they give the Staff out of their own Hands, and leave themselves to the Mercy of others. Written by a friend of the person injured
• Protestant monastery. Abridgments
• Dissertation on the pertness of our youth in general, especially those trained up at tea-tables

People / Organizations

• Daniel Defoe (Author)
• Anne Dodd I ("printed for")
• Elizabeth Nutt ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for A. Dodd near Temple-Bar, and E. Nutt at the Royal-Exchange, 1731 [1730] The fourth edition. With a preface in vindication of the author.; ..

Added name

Dodd, Anne, bookseller.; Nutt, E. (Elizabeth), active 1720-1738, bookseller.

Publication year

1730

ESTC No.

T6325

Grub Street ID

288514

Description

[4], 24, [2] p. ; 8°.

Note

A friend of the person injured = Daniel Defoe

An abridgment of his 'The protestant monastery', 1726

Published 17 December 1730 (Moore)

Price from imprint: price Six-Pence.