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Trials, Divorce, Adultery, Great Britain. Trials for Adultery: or the History of Divorces, Being Select Trials at Doctors Commons for Adultery, Fornication, Cruelty, Impotence, &c.
London: Printed for S. Bladon, 1779-1780.
[Together with]: The Trial of Isaac Prescott, Esq. A Captain in the Royal Navy, for Wanton, Tyrannical, Unprovoked, and Savage Cruelty towards Jane Prescott, his Wife, London: G. Lister, 1785, first edition, illustrated with engraved frontispiece; [bound with] Adultery. The Very Interesting and Remarkable Trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Hankey, London: Printed for the Proprietor, 1783; The Trial of the Rev. Mr. James Altham, London: G. Lister, 1785, volume two; The Second Part of the Trial of the Hon. Mrs. Catherine Newton, London: for the Proprietors, 1782, with engraved frontispiece, second edition; The Trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, London: for the Editors, Cornwell, & Lister, [n.d. 1782?]; The Trial of the Rev. Mr. James Altham, London: G. Lister, 1785, volume one, with frontispiece; The Life and Amours of the Lady Ann F-L-Y, London: for G. Lister, [n.d. 1782?]; [and] The Trial of the Hon. Mrs. Catherine Newton, London: Etherington & Lister, 1782, second edition; eight octavo volumes, bound in uniform contemporary half calf as a set, 8 x 5 in.
These volumes consist of racy content for the period, with much eyewitness testimony regarding who was in whose bedchamber, and the incriminating disarray of wigs, breeches, bedclothes, and petticoats.
Trials for Adultery: ESTC T106050; Isaac Prescott ESTC T53435, rare, listing two U.S. copies at Cornell and Berkeley Law; Mrs. Elizabeth Hankey, ESTC T95756, rare, listing one U.S. copy at California State Library, Sutro Library; James Altham ESTC T95761, no American copies; Catherine Newton, second part, ESTC N36528, no American copies; Elizabeth Williams ESTC T53434, two U.S. copies at Huntington and Providence College; Lady Ann F-L-Y ESTC T106501 rare, one copy in ESTC at BL, no American copies; Catherine Newton, first part, ESTC N63339, one copy in ESTC at Oxford's Corpus Christi College, no U.S. copies.
