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Trials for adultery, or, The history of divorces : being select trials at Doctors Commons, for adultery, fornication, cruelty, impotence, &c. from the year 1760, to the present time, including the whole of the evidence on each cause : together with the letters &c. that have been intercepted between the amorous parties

Title: Trials for adultery, or, The history of divorces : being select trials at Doctors Commons, for adultery, fornication, cruelty, impotence, &c. from the year 1760, to the present time, including the whole of the evidence on each cause : together with the letters &c. that have been intercepted between the amorous parties / taken in short-hand by a civilian.
Publication: London : Printed for S. Bladon ..., 1779[-1780]

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Additional Authors

Bladon, Samuel, -1799.

Found In

p1pc Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925 (CStRLIN)NYPW03-A5

Description

7 v.; 21 cm. (8vo)

Alternative Title

History of divorces

Subjects

Note

Each trial case has separate pagination, but the register is continuous.
Signatures: v. 1: A-3C⁴ ; v. 2: A-3C⁴ ; v. 3: A-3D⁴ 3E² ; v. 4: A² B-3B⁴ 3C² ; v. 5: A² B-3H⁴ ; v. 6: A-3E⁴ ; v. 7: A-3C⁴.
Vols. 1-3 are dated 1779 and 4-7, 1780.
Published in seventy parts, according to the final 'Address to the public.' in vol. 5.
Vol. 2 contains the case the Marquis of Carmarthen against the Marchioness of Carmarthen. The Marchioness, Amelia Osborne, ran away with John "Mad Jack" Byron, the father of the poet Lord Byron. Their union produced Augusta Leigh, who would in adulthood form an intimate friendship with her famous half-brother.

Access (note)

Restricted access;

Indexed In (note)

ESTC

Source (note)

Edwards

Call Number

Pforz (Trials for adultery)

OCLC

41910857

Title

Trials for adultery, or, The history of divorces : being select trials at Doctors Commons, for adultery, fornication, cruelty, impotence, &c. from the year 1760, to the present time, including the whole of the evidence on each cause : together with the letters &c. that have been intercepted between the amorous parties / taken in short-hand by a civilian.

Imprint

London : Printed for S. Bladon ..., 1779[-1780]

Indexed In:

ESTC T106050

Restricted Access

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

Local Note

Some copies listed in ESTC are bound with plates -- this one is not.

Provenance: Reginald Hibbert Tupper (bookplates).

Binding: Half black morocco, blue marbled boards, gilt spine titling and rules.

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Added Author

Bladon, Samuel, -1799. Publisher

Tupper, Reginald Hibbert, 1893-1972. Former owner

Found In:

p1pc Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925 (CStRLIN)NYPW03-A5

Research Call Number

Pforz (Trials for adultery)

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