The modern universal story-teller, or, A new picture of human life
Subtitle: consisting of a greater variety and a better selection of valuable and delightful subjects (calculated for the pleasure and improvement of readers of every class) than was ever given in any book of the kind hitherto published ...
By: by William Henry Melmoth
Publisher: Printed for Alex. Hogg at the King's Arms, no. 16, Paternoster-Row
Published: 1780
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
Other titles: New picture of human life
Notes: "Forming a complete collection of genuine, instructive, and entertaining stories, tales, narrations, anecdotes, essays, histories, fables, adventures, allegories, visions, maxims, romances, relations, memoirs, novels, criticisms, wonderfull occurrences, remarkable characters, singular events, modern sketches, lives, poems, &c., &c., among which besides those articles carefully selected from the most approved English authors, and from writers of distinguised eminence in other languages, are interspersed many original pieces in prose and verse."

P. 248 misnumbered 448.

The title page is a cancel; publisher's advertisements on title page verso.

Signatures: [A]² (±A1) B-U⁶ X⁴.

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