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The bandy guardian, or Miss Gi---t's advice to the lasses of London
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Title
The bandy guardian, or Miss Gi---t's advice to the lasses of London.
Published
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1751]
Physical Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 27 x 21 cm.
Local Notes
LWL 49 3490.3: "Bandy" corrected by Horace Walpole to "bawdy"; with other corrections and annotations in his hand.
Notes
A bawdy poem providing advice to young ladies on how to find mates.
Attributed to John Chute by Horace Walpole. See his copy in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Dated based on reference in Thomas Nuthall's letter to Horace Walpole, 9 July 1751. See Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1948, v. 14, p. 227.
Not in ESTC or Foxon.
Provenance
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day vii, lot 25, to H.G. Bohn, £2.17.6 [London, 1256]; offered in Balm's Catalogue for 1847(Architecture), p.223, for £5.5.0.
Variant and related titles
Bandy guardian
Bawdy guardian
Miss Giblet's advice to the lasses of London
Miss Gi---t's advice to the lasses of London
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 09, 2012
References
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 3490
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
Poems - 1751.
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