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005 $ 20210922164925.1
041 0 # $a eng
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245 0 4 $a The Agreeable Variety: Being A Miscellaneous Collection, In Prose and Verse, From The Works of the most Celebrated Authors. In Two Parts. Viz. Part I. Containing, 1. Instructive Discourses, on the most Useful Subjects, for the happy Conduct of Human Life. 2. Characters of the most Illustrious Personages of both Sexes, of our own, and other nations: particularly the remarkable Manner of Life of the Excellent Princess of Parma; written by herself, and found among her Papers after her Decease, in the Year 1577. 3. Choice Poems, and Select Passages, extracted from Shakespeare, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Roscommon, Otway, Oldham, Prior, &c. Part II. Containing Original Poems, with sixty Familiar Letters, upon Education, Love, Friendship, &c. By several Eminent Hands. None of which ever before printed. The whole Collected and Published by a Lady. [Epigraph] The Second Edition.
260 # # $a London; $b Printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red Lyon in Pater-noster-Row. $c M.DCC.XXIV. $c [1724]
300 # # $a iv, [10], 338, [2] p. $c 193 mm. (Octavo.)
505 0 # $a [T.p., dedic.] - The Contents - [Text] - Advertisement. The Mistakes in the First Part ... .
508 # # $a The work is dedicated by 'J. M.' to Mrs. Pulteney.
510 4 # $a ESTC $c T61568
520 2 # $a This is a reprint of the first edition, with a new title page and a dedication leaf.
533 # # $n A microfilm copy was published in 1985 (Woodbridge CT: Research Publications).
562 # # $a The front pastedown carries the armorial book-plate of Stainforth, and is also inscribed in ink, 'P. Garrard'. The front loose endpaper is inscribed in ink, 'of Hesslake, Bristol'.
563 # # $a 18th-century calf, covers panelled in blind; gilt-decorated spine, red morocco spine-label lettered 'The Agreeable Variety'.
653 # # $a Ethics - Social life and customs
655 # 0 $a Essays - Memoirs - Poems - Letters - Europe - Great Britain - History
655 # 0 $a Anthologies - Great Britain - 18th century
700 1 # $a Bettesworth $e publisher
700 1 # $a Pulteney $e dedicatee