Cover Image

The Connoisseur / By Mr. Town, critic and censor-general.

Show other versions (6)
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Thornton, Bonnell, 1724-1768, Colman, George, 1732-1794, Town, Mr (pseud.), Parsons, John (Bookseller), Sansom, Francis, active 1784-1799 (Engraver)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for J. Parsons, No. 21, Paternoster-Row, 1793.
Series:Parsons's select British classics ; v. 14-17.
Subjects:
Art > England > Periodicals > Early works to 1800.
London (England) > Social life and customs > Periodicals > Early works to 1800.
Londres (Angleterre) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Manners and customs.
England > London.
Re-issues (Publishing)
Engravings.
Description
Item Description:Added title pages, engraved with vignettes, headed "Parsons's select British classics"; that to volume 1 carries date 1794.
"Mr. Town" is a pseudonym; written chiefly by George Colman and Bonnell Thornton.
"Memoirs of Bonnell Thornton, Esquire" : volume 1, pages i-xxiii.
Reprint. Originally published in 140 weekly numbers, London : R. Baldwin, from Jan. 31, 1754-Sept. 30, 1756.
Original cumulation: two volumes, folio: London : R. Baldwin, 1755-1756.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Engravings by Sansom, Grean, and others, after designs by Corbould.
Physical Description:4 volumes : frontispiece (portrait), plates ; 15 cm