Author: GIN. HOTELS.
Title: The Publick-House-Keeper's Monitor: Being a Serious Admonition to the Masters and Mistresses of those, commonly called Publick-Houses, of what Kind or Denomination soever. The Third Edition.
Description: London: Printed and Sold by J. Downing, in Batholomew-Close near West-Smithfield, 1730. 12mo, 142 x 85 mms., pp. x, 11 - 47 [48 adverts], original wrappers (a little worn), with a 29t century owner's name on the verso of the front wrappers, "Hermann Odessa/ London/ 1918." Preserved in a modern morocco-backed cloth drop-back boards. The author is not very enthusiastic about public houses in general: "[U]pon describing the proper Conduct and Behavior of those, who keep Public Houses, we shall have so much Cause to refolect upon the contrary Practices, so much Vice and and Impietry, must be expos'd, and with such a horrid Train of Abominations will appear, as must grieve the Heart of any pious Christian, and make him even dread the Judgements of God, as continually ready to fall upon a Nation, wherein such open and bare-fac'd Wickedness is dialy comitted with Impunity." Two editions of this work were published in 1725. For this third edition, ESTC locates copies in BL, Cambridge, and McMaster University.

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