Beauty. Never before Published. By Mrs. Manley.
London: Printed for
John Barber and
John Morphew,
1720.
First Edition. 8vo. 192 leaves, publisher’s advertisement on the verso of the second leaf, recto blank.
Mary de la Riviere Manley, 1663-1724, author of a number of plays and novels, and for a time editor of the
Examiner
, having succeeded Swift in 1711. Her novels dealt with politics and personal scandal in the form of romance.
The Power of Love is dedicated to the Lady Lansdowne, and the dedication closes: “The novels, Madam, have truth for their foundation; several
of the facts are to be found in ancient history: to which, adding divers new incidents, I have attempted, in modern English,
to draw them out of obscurity, with the same design as Mr. Dryden had in his Tales from Boccace and Chaucer. Though with a
far, far unequal performance! As much as poetry is more eloquent than prose; or an extraordinary genius, preferable to None.”
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Constantia Philips. 2
d. & 3
d. vol
(
~s
)
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 138, no. 25, as above.
PHILLIPS,
Teresia Constantia.
An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. T. C. Phillips. Vol. II. [-III.]
London: Printed for the Author; and Sold at her House in Craig’s-Court, Charing-Cross,
mdccxlviii
. [1748.]
CT788 .P55 A3
First Edition. Sm. 8vo. Vol. II and III only, 184 and 172 leaves. The title of the first volume, which seems not to have been in
Jefferson’s library, reads as follows:
An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. Teresia Constantia Phillips, more particularly that Part of it which relates to her Marriage with an eminent Dutch Merchant: the Whole authenticated
by faithful Copies of his Letters, and of the Settlement which he made upon her to induce her to suffer (without any real
Opposition on her Part) a Sentence to be pronounced against their Marriage; Together with such other Original Papers, filed
in the Cause, as are necessary to illustrate that remarkable Story.
This is followed by a quotation from Rowe’s Fair Penitent, and, in place of the imprint and date, the statement: “N.B. Such
extraordinary Care has been taken to intimidate the Booksellers, in order to stifle this Work, that Mrs. Phillips is obliged to publish it herself, and only at her House in Craig’s Court, Charing Cross; and to prevent Imposition, each
Book will be signed with her own Hand.”
In the copy in the Library of Congress each volume is signed in several places by Teresia Constantia Phillips.
It is not certain that Jefferson’s copy was ever received by Congress. The entry in the contemporary working copy of the 1815
Library of Congress Catalogue has the written annotation
missing and the volumes are entered in the manuscript list of missing books made at a later date; the entry is omitted from the later
catalogues.
Teresia Constantia Phillips, 1709-1765, English courtesan and author. This work was written with the idea of blackmailing her friends, and owing to the
difficulty of finding a bookseller, it was printed for the author in parts, and subsequently bound in three volumes. A second
edition was printed in the same year, 1748, a third in 1750 and a fourth in 1761.
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Haywood’s novels. 4
th. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 138, no. 31, as above.
HAYWOOD,
Eliza.
Secret Histories, Novels, and Poems. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Vol. IV. Containing, I. The Rash Resolve: or, The Untimely Discovery. A Novel. II. The Masqueraders: or, Fatal Curiosity; being the
Secret History of a late Amour. III. Lasselia: or, The Self-Abandon’d. A Novel. IV. The Force of
