[Victor (Benjamin)] The Widow of the Wood, first edition, issue with woodcut squirrel device on title, "St." in italics in imprint and woodcut bust within scrollwork on p.206, half-title, with final advertisement leaf for the state lottery, C9 with small portion torn away from outer margin, some light soiling, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, lacking label, 12mo, for C.Corbett, 1755. ⁂ On the intimacy and alleged marriage between Ann Whitby and Sir William Wolseley. "Although it was written in support of Wolseley, it was said to be so offensive to members of the Wolseley family that they destroyed every copy of the narrative that they could obtain, but in the nineteenth century it was still to be found in catalogues of secondhand books." (DNB) One of several issues in the same year ESTC lists only 4 UK copies of this one (BL, National Library of Scotland, Oxford and Bristol).
[Victor (Benjamin)] The Widow of the Wood, first edition, issue with woodcut squirrel device on title, "St." in italics in imprint and woodcut bust within scrollwork on p.206, half-title, with final advertisement leaf for the state lottery, C9 with small portion torn away from outer margin, some light soiling, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, lacking label, 12mo, for C.Corbett, 1755. ⁂ On the intimacy and alleged marriage between Ann Whitby and Sir William Wolseley. "Although it was written in support of Wolseley, it was said to be so offensive to members of the Wolseley family that they destroyed every copy of the narrative that they could obtain, but in the nineteenth century it was still to be found in catalogues of secondhand books." (DNB) One of several issues in the same year ESTC lists only 4 UK copies of this one (BL, National Library of Scotland, Oxford and Bristol).
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