[MANLEY, MARY DELARIVIÈRE.] Secret Memoirs and Manners of several Persons of Quality, of...

[MANLEY, MARY DELARIVIÈRE.] Secret Memoirs and Manners of several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, An Island in the Mediteranean [sic] . . . Second Edition. [2], vi, 272, [2]; [16], 246, [2] pages (with main text of the 2 volumes transposed, but not the preliminaries), including engraved frontispiece in the second volume, not called for in the first, and separately printed key to the characters at end of each volume. 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 193x116 mm, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked retaining most of original backstrip and rear cover; occasional browning and marginal dampstaining. London: John Morphew and J. Woodward, 1709

Estimate $150 - 250

Second edition, published the same year as the first, of a best-selling roman-à-clef ridiculing Whig sexual and political behavior, "the archetypal scandal novel" (NCBEL). Howgego V, M12.

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