Search Results: trials for adultery or the history by a civilian

10: S Bladon, 1779. Hardciover. Good/No jacket. Being select trials at Doctors Commons for Adultery, Fornication, Cruelty, Impotence, etc., From the year 1760, to the present time. Including the whole of the Evidence in each Cause. Together with The letters, etc, that have been intercepted between the amorous Parties. The whole forming a complete history of the Private Life, Intrigues, and Amours of many Characters in the most elevated sphere: every scene and transaction, however ridiculous, whimsical, or extraordinary, being fairly represented, as becomes a faithful Historian, who is fully determined not to sacrifice Truth at the Shrine of Guilt and Folly. Three volumes of what eventually turned out to be seven. Rebound in leather. The front cover of volume 3 is detached, but present. Other two volumes intact, but worn or cracked. No plates are present, as was common with the few original copies available.

2006. ISBN-13: 9781584774686; ISBN-10: 1584774681. The Most Extensive Compilation of Eighteenth-Century English Divorce Trials [Trials]. [Criminal Conversation]. A Civilian. 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. The Whole Forming a Complete History of the Private Life, Intrigues, and Amours of Many Characters in the Most Elevated Sphere: Every Scene and Transaction, However Ridiculous, Whimsical, or Extraordinary, Being Fairly Represented, as Becomes a Faithful Historian, Who is Fully Determined Not to Sacrifice Truth at the Shrine of Guilt and Folly. Taken in Short Hand, by a Civilian. London: Printed for S. Bladon, 1779-1780. 7 Volumes. 30 plates. 40, 42, 40, 45, 54, 122, 48; 68, 28, 45, 14, 98, 24, 38, 76; 54, 26, 78,… Read More

London: Printed for S. Bladon, 1780. First edition. Contemporary full calf, covers decoratively bordered in blind, spines with four wide raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt and blind in compartments, two green morocco labels lettered in gilt, blind-stamped board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt. Some minor wear to a few corners, otherwise a near fine set. Volumes 1-6 only (of 7). Six octavo volumes (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 197 x 124 mm.). Collating 392; 392; 404, 384; 426 (of 428); 406. Twenty-one (of twenty-four) fine engraved plates. Volume I lacking two of the engraved plates (Daly, facing page 39, and Draper, facing page 20), and clean inner marginal tear on Q4 (pages 5/6); Volume II with light marginal stain on 3A4 (pages 59/50); Volume IV, Z3 (pages 87/88) trimmed at fore-margin; Volume V, Z3 (pages 55/56) trimmed at fore-margin and lacking last leaf 3H4 (pages. 305/306) Address to the Public (verso blank); Volume VI lacking one engraved plate (Grosvenor, facing pages 114). Armorial… Read More

London: S. Bladon, 1779-1781. Hardcover. Very Good+. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt-ruled spine, gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label; 5 volumes, 8vo; with 22 engraved plates. Publication dates and plate counts for individual volumes are as follows: I (1781, 8 plates), II (1780, 4 plates), III (1779, 6 plates), IV (1780, 1 plate), V (1780, 3 plates). Two more volumes were issued later. Spines a little dry; some light scuffing and bumping on boards and spines; thin cracks at joints, but holding just fine. Text blocks are nice and clean. File it under law, file it under humor, file it under erotica -- the plates indulge in portraying adulterous couples in flagrante delicto. The title says it all.

London: S. Bladon, 1779. First. hardcover. very good(+). 7 volumes with individual pagination for each trial. Pages lightly toned and with some dampstaining at bottom gutter on some pages, otherwise rather clean copies of these scarce books. 8vos, beautifully rebound in recent 3/4 brown calf over marbled boards; gilt spines with red morocco labels. London: Printed for S. Bladon, 1779-1780. First edition. Very good(+) copies in fine bindings.<br/> <br/> Complete in 70 parts, according to the "Address to the Public" at rear of volume 5. Volumes 1-3 are dated 1779; volumes 4-7 are dated 1780.<br/> <br/>