A New Plan to Save the State. Addressed to the Ladies. By a Gentleman of the University of Cambridge.
Place and Imprint: London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by J. Dodsley, and Messrs. T. and J. Merril, Cambridge, 1779.
Edition: First edition.
Bibliographical References: ESTC T74399 (BL, Cambridge [2], Rylands, HEH, Yale).
Condition: Paper a little browned and stained; very good, large copy.
Book ID: 28836
Physical Description
4to, modern marbled paper boards and printed paper spine label.Comments
A scarce anonymous poem, celebrating female excellence and deriding men "who dedicate the day to indolence and the night to gaming," - whose vices threaten the stability the State. The author suggests that the answer may be to follow the examples of the female character to save England from bad manners, foppish arts and French ways.Sold
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