RANGER'S PROGRESS consisting of a variety of poetical essays moral serious comic and satyrical
176042569London: Printed for the Author. 1760. First Edition. Disbound. Fair. 16mo; vi 2 120 pages; Sold by T. Kinnersley in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and to be had of all other Booksellers in Town and Country. OCLC 504455151 ESTC t126448 This book lacks most of the leather backstrip and the entire rear board; the front calf covered board is present but detached. The ffep and title page are still attached to the front board; the rest of the text block are held firmly by the original stitching and remainder of the spine. Text is clean but for a couple brief pencil notes marking where the reader left off. Quite a scarce volume; a good cadidate for rebinding. "Most of the pieces in this entertaining miscellany originally appeared in Lloyd's Evening Post." These anonymously published essays skip from a reminiscence of the author's charming youthful infatuation with his nurse and a string of other women into adulthood to a day at an auction house to his arrival at Bath and an odd "exchange" of verses with one "Jack Meggot." A few years later "Honest Ranger" published a second book A Visit to the Ideal World 1763. This author who published under the psedonym "Honest Ranger" has variously been identified as Arthur Murphy or John Ingledew but is to be distinguished from the "Honest Ranger" who published the infamous Harris’s List of the ladies of Covent Garden. . Printed for the Author unknown
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