A modest defence of publick stews (1724)
By: Bernard Mandeville ; introduction by Richard I. Cook.
Contributors: Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733.; Ogle, George, 1704-1746.
Series: Publication / the Augustan Reprint Society ;; no. 162; Publication (Augustan Reprint Society) ;; no. 162.
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Prostitution -- Great Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. viii, 1st group).
Original t.p. reads: A modest defence of publick stews, or, An essay upon whoring, as it is now practis'd in these kingdoms / written by a layman. London, Printed by A. Moore near St. Paul's, 1724.
The dedication is signed: Phil-Porney. Has also been attributed to George Ogle. Cf. BLC to 1975.
Previously published: Los Angeles : William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1973.