A modest defence of publick stews
Subtitle: (1724)
By: Introd. by Richard I. Cook.
Contributors: Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733.; Ogle, George, 1704-1746.
Series: Augustan Reprint Society. Publication; no. 162; Publication (Augustan Reprint Society) ;; no. 162.
Publisher: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Prostitution -- Great Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Facsim. reprint.
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.
Attributed in this ed. (as in some other sources) to Bernard Mandeville. Also attributed to George Ogle. The author uses the pseudonym Phil-Porney in the 1st ed.