Female conduct: being an essay on the art of pleasing
Subtitle: To be practised by the fair sex, before, and after marriage. A poem, in two books. Humbly dedicated, to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
By: Inscribed to Plautilla
Edition: The second edition, with large additions. By Thomas Marriott, esq; ...
Publisher: Printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, Temple-bar
Published: 1760
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Notes: Signatures: A⁸(±A1), a⁸, b⁴, B-I⁸(-I2, 3, +I2.3), K⁸(-K1,+(K)⁴), L-O⁸(±O3), P-R⁸(R3+1), S-U⁸, X⁴, X¹.

A reissue of sheets with cancel t.-p. & other cancellations, & with T-U⁸, X⁴, X¹ added at end, inserting an apostrophe to King George adapted from Horace's Odes, Book 4, odes 14-15 (with Latin parallels at the foot of the page).

Gift of George L. Lincoln, November 1964.

Six pages, each numbered (129), inserted between p. 129 & 130, & two pages, each numbered (246), inserted between p. 246 & 247.

In this state, there is an ink cancel on p. 139, ℓ. 10; the errata on p. [322] have been partly corrected by the author in manuscript.

Inscribed on front fly-leaves (mutilated), "The Author presents this Book To Miss Marriott, as a memorial of his high Esteem for her excellent Qualities, which do great Honor to the Nam[e] of Marriott. May the 5. 1764"; with a poem "To Miss Marriott".

Number 1 of two titles, bound with his Twentieth epistle of Horace to his book modernized, 1759.

In CMI case.