| Other author/creator | Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Pamela. |
| Other author/creator | Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Clarissa. |
| Other author/creator | Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. History of Sir Charles Grandison. |
| Other author/creator | Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote. |
| Other author/creator | Le Sage, Alain René, 1668-1747. Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane. Abridgements. English. |
| Variant title |
Lady's and gentlemen's entertaining library |
| Variant title |
Portion of title: New novelists magazine |
| Variant title |
Portion of title: Lady's & gentleman's entertaining library |
| Frequency | Irregular |
| General note | Title pages engraved, with publication date of the engraving noted bellow imprint. |
| General note | Vol. I imprint dated "1792", however plates are dated "1793". |
| General note | First volume of each novel includes added letterpress title page. |
| General note | Head of letterpress t.p. for the abridgement of Gil Blas reads: Hogg's edition. |
| General note | Letterpress t.p.s include undated imprint. |
| General note | Publisher's advt. on last leaf of v. 7 indicates that original weekly numbers included engraved t.p. and frontis. plate. |
| General note | Printed in two columns. |
| General note | A collection of previously published novels, including: Pamela, Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa Harlowe, Don Quixote, an abridged ed. of Gil Blas translated by Smollett, and miscellaneous romances; no. 75-84 [v. 7?] concludes with portraits and biographical sketches of Smollett and Alain René Le Sage. Not to be confused with a similar title published by Harrison and Co. in the 1780s. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford). |
| References |
English Short Title Catalog, P2979. |
| Special numbering | Volumes irregularly numbered; the first coll. vol. of the weekly issues of each novel is apparently numbered "I", however since only one copy is known to exist it is impossible to be sure of this. |
| Special numbering | Irregular numbers of issues in each volume, based on the length of each novel included. |
| Special numbering | Letterpress title pages lack chronological designations. |
| Special numbering | Weekly issues dated from engravings; title pages lacking in copy cataloged. |
| Special numbering | Issue numbers from direction lines in each issue. |
| Supplement note | An unnumbered supplemental vol. contains no. 85-94. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Title history note | Irregularly collects weekly numbers of: Hogg's New novelists magazine. |
| Genre/form | Periodicals England 18th century. |
