Author: Poyntz, Anne B.
Title: Je ne sçai quoi: or, a collection of letters, odes, &c. Never before published. By a Lady.
Description: London: n.p. Printed in the Year 1769. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xv, [i], 112pp. The dedication is printed in red, and dated April 1, 1768. Pp.vii-xv contain a list of subscribers. Modern calf over marbled boards. ESTC T27753; A Catalogue of Rare, Curious, and Valuable Old Books on sale by Alfred Russell Smith, London 1882, p. 206, No. 2453 (priced at 5 shillings). Browned throughout. Title-page worn, with a small piece of the top blank margin missing; first dedication page torn at the top and missing a piece, affecting the running title and some letters of a word, though the word is fully legible. A small slip affixed to top of the list of subscribers. ESTC records three copies in UK: British Library, National Library of Wales, and Oxford University, Bodleian Library; and four copies in North America: Folger Shakespeare Library, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, Library of Congress, and University of Illinois Library. "Privately printed, 1769 Said to be by Ann B. Poyntz. There is a long list of aristocratic subscribers; the letters are unusually witty." (from Smith's 1882 catalogue). Good.

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