[BEHN, Aphra] Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister with the history of their adventures. In three parts, Dublin: by S. Powell for Philip Crampton, 1729, 12°, 459 + [1]p. (some browning) [Love letters purporting to have passed between Ford Grey, Earl of Tankerville and his sister-in-law Henrietta Berkeley. This edition apparently unrecorded in ESTCm. Bound with:] Whoredom, Fornication, and Adultery, detected and laid open: with all the secret intrigues of the parties concern'd. Being the genuine history of a person of distinction that debauch'd a young lady, his own wife's sister ..., Bath: for Sam Wagstaff, 1749, 12° in half sheets, 95 + [1]p. (title with ownership erasures and ink smudges, holed where one erasure is particularly heavy, browning and spotting to text) [Account of the trial of Lord Grey. This title apparently unrecorded in ESTCm], 2 works in one volume, contemporary polished calf decorated in gilt and blind, spine labels lettered "Love letters from a Nobleman" and "Trial of Lord Grey" (rebacked, preserving old spine, labels slightly frayed), marbled endpapers and edges, bookplates of T. Bell 1797 and Robert, Marquis of Crewe. With 13 other volumes of varied interest, including a presentation copy of Richard Smith's The Fratricide, or the Murderer's Gibbet the right tragical hystorie of Sir John D. Goodere who was murdered by his brother Captain Samuel Goodere, and assistants, on the 19th of January 1741 (Bristol, 1839). (14)

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[BEHN, Aphra] Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister with the history of their adventures. In three parts, Dublin: by S. Powell for Philip Crampton, 1729, 12°, 459 + [1]p. (some browning) [Love letters purporting to have passed between Ford Grey, Earl of Tankerville and his sister-in-law Henrietta Berkeley. This edition apparently unrecorded in ESTCm. Bound with:] Whoredom, Fornication, and Adultery, detected and laid open: with all the secret intrigues of the parties concern'd. Being the genuine history of a person of distinction that debauch'd a young lady, his own wife's sister ..., Bath: for Sam Wagstaff, 1749, 12° in half sheets, 95 + [1]p. (title with ownership erasures and ink smudges, holed where one erasure is particularly heavy, browning and spotting to text) [Account of the trial of Lord Grey. This title apparently unrecorded in ESTCm], 2 works in one volume, contemporary polished calf decorated in gilt and blind, spine labels lettered "Love letters from a Nobleman" and "Trial of Lord Grey" (rebacked, preserving old spine, labels slightly frayed), marbled endpapers and edges, bookplates of T. Bell 1797 and Robert, Marquis of Crewe. With 13 other volumes of varied interest, including a presentation copy of Richard Smith's The Fratricide, or the Murderer's Gibbet the right tragical hystorie of Sir John D. Goodere who was murdered by his brother Captain Samuel Goodere, and assistants, on the 19th of January 1741 (Bristol, 1839). (14)

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