The Abanish'd beauty: or, A fair face in disgrace, a poem

All titles

• The Abanish'd beauty: or, A fair face in disgrace, a poem
• Fair face in disgrace

People / Organizations

• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed [by T. Read?] for A. Moore, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1729.

Added name

Read, T., active 1723-1758, printer, attributed name.; Gay, John, 1685-1732, attributed name.

Publication year

1729

ESTC No.

T64048

Grub Street ID

289136

Description

8p. ; 2°.

Note

Sometimes attributed to John Gay

On the Duchess of Queensberry's banishment from court

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious; printing attributed to T. Read by A.B. Bricker, "Who was A. Moore?" in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 110:2 (June 2016), 181-214, at p. 203ff

subsequent "editions" (i.e. printings or issues) bear Read's name as printer.

Uncontrolled note

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