Research Catalog

Title

The Etonian out of bounds; or The philosophy of the boudoir : to which are annexed several hundred new verses, tales of gallantry, satires, epigrams, songs, wild oats, forbidden fruit, anecdotes of Goethe and Shelley, and a variety of literary and philosophic speculations / by James de Laurence, author of The empire of the Nairs, etc.

Author

Lawrence, James, 1773-1840.

Publication

London : Printed by John Brooks, 421 Oxford Street, and sold by George Cannon, May's Buildings, St Martin's Lane, 1834.

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Additional Authors

• Brooks, John.
• Cannon, George.

Description

2 v. : ill.; 19 cm.

Alternative Title

Philosophy of the boudoir

Note

• Pagination: v. 1: [4], iv, [2], 186, xxiv, 2 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [2], iv, [2], 188, xxxvi, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates
• Epigraph: "Nil admirari. / 'The wisest he who plays the fool the best / The greatest fool who's wiser than the rest.'"
• Printer's advertisements: v. 1: p. [1-2], first set; v. 2: p. [1-2] at end.
• Erratum: v. 2, p. [v].
• Illustrations: v. 1: Engraved frontispiece, "Matricide," depciting a man attemptinig to stab his nude wife in her bed; the hand of another man, also holding a knife, emerges from underneat the bed. -- v. 2: Engraved frontispiece, "L'Enfant Gâté. The Peaches," depicting the naughty boy springing upon the table to grab the peach that had been reserved by the lady.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Call Number

Pforz (Lawrence, J. Etonian out of bounds. 1834)

OCLC

773389664

Author

Lawrence, James, 1773-1840.

Title

The Etonian out of bounds; or The philosophy of the boudoir : to which are annexed several hundred new verses, tales of gallantry, satires, epigrams, songs, wild oats, forbidden fruit, anecdotes of Goethe and Shelley, and a variety of literary and philosophic speculations / by James de Laurence, author of The empire of the Nairs, etc.

Imprint

London : Printed by John Brooks, 421 Oxford Street, and sold by George Cannon, May's Buildings, St Martin's Lane, 1834.

Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Local Note

Includes the first printing of Percy Bysshe Shelley's 17 August 1812 letter to Lawrence; in "Shelley," v. 1 appendix, p. xxii-xxiv.

Pforzheimer copy: Two volumes bound as one. -- Bound in green pebble-grain cloth backed drab boards.

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Added Author

Brooks, John. Printer

Cannon, George. Publisher

Research Call Number

Pforz (Lawrence, J. Etonian out of bounds. 1834)