All the histories and novels written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn, intire in one volume. Viz. I. The history of Oroonoko; or, The royal-slave. Written by the command of King Charles the Second. II. The fair jilt; or, Prince Tarquin. III. Agnes de Castro; or, The force of generous love. IV. The lover's watch; or, The art of making love: being rules for courtship for every hour of the day and night. V. The ladies looking-glass to dress themselves by; or, The whole art of charming all mankind. VI. The lucky mistake. VII. Memoirs of the court of the king of Bantam. VIII. The nun; or, The perjured beauty. IX. The adventure of the black lady. Together with the history of the life and memoirs of Mrs. Behn. By one of the fair sex. Intermix'd with pleasant love-letters that pass'd betwixt her and Minheer Van Bruin, a Dutch merchant; with her character of the country and lover: and her love-letters to a gentleman in England. The sixth edition, corrected.
Aphra Behn (1640-1689).
Category
Books
Date
1718
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3216904
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 464, [6] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 7227. Provenance: manuscript former nineteenth-century[?] shelfmark in pencil on front pastedown: "27.J.6". Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled sprinkled and plain calf; sewn onto three sewing supports with five raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gilt title on brown leather label on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Aphra Behn (1640-1689). Charles Gildon (1665-1724)