Madan (Martin): Poemata, Partim Redita, Partim Scripta, 8vo, [? Epsom], 1784, inscribed to the Hon. W.B. Cadogan with several corrections and annotations by the author, contemporary half calf (spine lightly rubbed); and another. (2)

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Madan (Martin): Poemata, Partim Redita, Partim Scripta, 8vo, [? Epsom], 1784, inscribed to the Hon. W.B. Cadogan with several corrections and annotations by the author, contemporary half calf (spine lightly rubbed); and another. (2)

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Madan became a popular and fashionable Methodist preacher after his conversion by John Wesley in 1748. He was eventually forced to resign his chaplaincy and retire into private life after his published advocacy of polygamy in Thelyphthora (1780) was met by a storm of indignation and criticism.

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