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Familiar letters of love, gallantry, and several other occasions. By the wits of the present age:

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704, Voiture, Monsieur de (Vincent), 1597-1648, Dryden, John, 1631-1700, Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680, Congreve, William, 1670-1729, Wycherley, William, 1640-1716, Briscoe, Samuel (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe, at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill, 1724.
Edition:The sixth edition, with additions, corrected.
Subjects:
Letters.
Erotic literature.
Description
Item Description:Title in red and black; head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Dedication signed: Sam. Briscoe.
Vol. 2 reproduces a large portion of "Familiar and courtly letters, written by Monsieur Voiture to persons of the greatest honour, wit, and quality, of both sexes in the court of France ... London, 1700." Translated by Dryden and T. Brown.
The Cushing Library/Dawson French copy has "In One Volume" stamped on title page, but from viewinng the 1724 edition in Eighteenth Century Collections Online this is simply the first of the two volumes.
Physical Description:2 volumes : plates (portraits) 16 cm
Place of Publication:England -- London.