Lot 121
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The Case of Seduction, being an account of the late proceedings at Paris ... against the Reverend Abbé Claudius Nicholas des Rues, for seducing from their virginity, and committing rapes upon 133 maidens ... the fourth edition, London: for John Marshall, [n.d.], 12°, engraved frontispiece, [2] + 181-256pp. (S2 and X2 with short tear at head), contemporary calf (rebacked).

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The Case of Seduction, being an account of the late proceedings at Paris ... against the Reverend Abbé Claudius Nicholas des Rues, for seducing from their virginity, and committing rapes upon 133 maidens ... the fourth edition, London: for John Marshall, [n.d.], 12°, engraved frontispiece, [2] + 181-256pp. (S2 and X2 with short tear at head), contemporary calf (rebacked).

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Presumably first printed by Marshall as part of a larger work, as the collation of the text is Q-X6, Y2 and the pagination runs from p. 181 to 256. ESTC lists only one edition of the work, published by Edmund Curll in 1726.

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