A search on World Cat brought up:

 Ranger's Impartial List of the Ladies of Pleasure in Edinburgh 

Author:  James Tytler
Publication: Edinburgh : Paul Harris, 
Year: 1978, 1775 

Note(s): Reprint. Originally published: Edinburgh : [The Author], 1775./
"Written anonymously, but ... attributed to James Tytler (1745-1804) ...
by Charles Kilpatrick Sharpe"--Prelim. p./ Cover title: Directory of
ladies of pleasure in Edinburgh./ Spine title: Impartial list of ladies
of pleasure in Edinburgh. 

Other Titles: Directory of ladies of pleasure in Edinburgh.; Impartial
list of ladies of pleasure in Edinburgh. 

Responsibility: with a preface by a celebrated wit. 

Maria Kimberly
Project Editor
Library of Virginia

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Subject: Armitage's Williamsburg "Ladies of Pleasure" ?

In an endnote on page 225 of his book _The First Emancipator: The
Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His
Slaves_ (New York, 2005), Andrew Levy cited the following title:

Armitage's Impartial List of the Ladies of Pleasure of Williamsburg,
with a Preface by a Celebrated Wit (Williamsburg, 1775).

Last night I did on-line title/subject searches in several major
libraries (Lib of Congress, Lib of VA, VCU, UVA, Va Hist Soc, Colonial
Williamsburg and W&M) - all of which came up NEGATIVE - as did on-line
searches of the Evans Bibliography of early American imprints and the
Virginia Gazette index on the CW Rockefeller Library website.

Is anyone familiar with this title?


Dr. Jon Kukla

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