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New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1992. 1st Am. ed. . Hardcover. Very good condition tattered d.j./fair. 304p.

London: Kelly, 1821. One of a number of editions issued the same year. 8vo, pp. xx, 664; viii,719. Bound in contemporary tree calf (rebacked in calf), with new end papers, half title in each volume. Double page engraved title-page in each volume. Illustrated with 24 (of 25) engraved portraits. A very good copy, some foxed. Queen of George IV, Caroline lived in great disfavor with the crown after the birth of her daughter. She was tried for her relations with her Italian courtier, Louis Bergami. Attempts to pass a bill divorcing her from the King were unsuccessful.

Paris: Bulla, 19th cent.. Color lithograph. 465 x 600 mm sheet size. Lith. par Reignier, Bettannier et Morlon from the series Musée des Moeurs en action. Repaired and unrepaired tears, discoloration in the right margin.

London: Printed for the Proprietors, and sold by C. Etherington, No. 137, Fleet-Street; G. Lister, No. 46, Old Bailey; and all the Booksellers in Town and Country. - This Trial was Published at the earnest solicitation of many Ladies in the amorous Ton. [1782]. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 198 x 130 mms., pp. [iv], 68, later dull orange wrappers; underlined throughout. The publication of these two trials [written sources unspecified] some thirty years after they took place is accounted - if we accept it at face value - by the lengthy preface signed by one 'S.B.' ''The ladies who have committed matrimonial faux pas, have been so unmercifully handled in a variety of late publications, that I am determined to stand forth their champion...among all the trials for infidelity...care has been taken not to insert a single one that has been instituted against the men - the ladies only have been exposed...how illiberal, unjust, and partial are such proceedings?' The anonymous… Read More

London: Printed for the Author, and sold by S. Bladon [and others], 1783. Modern cloth-backed boards, printed paper label, quite well preserved and fresh, with the half-title and the final leaf giving the sentence A first step via Doctors Commons for subsequently securing a private act of Parliament to dissolve a marriage and to enable a re-marriage, available to the wealthy and well-connected (as here), the only means of obtaining a divorce prior to 1857

London: Printed for G. Lister, No. 46, Old Bailey, 1780. Modern cloth-backed boards, quite fresh, with the three panel frontispiece graphically depicting several of Hart's cruelties towards his wife A rare account of a classic case of physical and mental cruelty (a genre not often reported), including forced seclusion, attempted strangulation, and physical blows of many different sorts, leading to the modern equivalent of a judicial separation