Modern Manners. [HOOLE (Samuel)].

Modern Manners; or, the Country Cousins: In a Series of Poetical Epistles. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.
Engraved frontispiece.
8vo. [179 x 115 x 17 mm]. viii, 165 pp. Bound in contemporary quarter calf, marbled paper covered boards, with calf tips at the corners, the spine divided into six panels with raised bands flanked by gilt fillets, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label, plain endleaves, lightly sprinkled edges. (Rubbed).
London: printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall, 1782.

With the half-title. Title a little dust soiled and a few spots but a very good copy.

First published in 1781 (BL, Oxford, Harvard and University of Delaware) with only 14 Letters (mostly from Mr Ralph Rusty and Miss Ruth Rusty) and without the frontispiece, and reissued with a cancelled half-title and title in 1782 (BL, Louisiana, Newberry and University of Arizona). This second edition is expanded to 18 Letters and the frontispiece is a significant addition. It is well represented in US libraries but in the UK there are only copies at the BL, Oxford and National Library of Scotland.

Written while an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, this was Hoole's first published work, being an epistolary novel in verse that cleverly imitates Christopher Anstey's New Bath Guide.

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