Modern amours: or, A secret history of the adventures of some persons of the first rank. Faithfully related from the author's own knowledge of each transaction. With a key prefixed.

ID 23791
Title Modern amours: or, A secret history of the adventures of some persons of the first rank. Faithfully related from the author's own knowledge of each transaction. With a key prefixed.
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Signed Author Faithfully related from the author's own knowledge of each transaction
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Self-published No
Volumes 1
Pagination 166
Date of Publication 1733
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Date of First Publication 1733
Imprint printed in the year
Colophon
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Location of Printing London GB
Format Duodecimo (12mo)
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Price (pound)
Price (shilling) 1
Price (pence) 6.0
Total Price (in pence) 18
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Notes ESTC Notes: Anonymous. By Lydia Grainger.
Identified as Curll's publication by Straus, who dates it to 3 February 1733.
A reissue, with the addition of the key, of the edition "printed by Austin Weddell" (ESTC N498540).
Reissued in 1739 with title: New court tales, or Modern amours (ESTC N72133).
Concludes "End of the first part", though the key implies no further matter, and no more appears to have been published.
Price from imprint in square brackets: Price one shilling and six-pence.
Hand-Verified No
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Grainger, Lydia. Modern amours: or, A secret history of the adventures of some persons of the first rank. Faithfully related from the author's own knowledge of each transaction. With a key prefixed.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 23791, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/23791. Accessed 2025-11-01. 

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  author={Grainger,Lydia},
  year={1733},
  title={Modern amours: or, A secret history of the adventures of some persons of the first rank. Faithfully related from the author's own knowledge of each transaction. With a key prefixed.},
  publisher={Edmund Curll [Strand]},
  address={London},    }

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