Trials for adultery, or, The history of divorces : being select trials at Doctors Commons for adultery, fornication, cruelty, impotence, &c. from the year 1760 to the present time : including the whole of the evidence on each cause, together with the letters, &c. that have been intercepted between the amorous parties : the whole forming a complete history of the private life, intrigues, and amours of many characters in the most elevated sphere, every scene and transaction, however ridiculous, whimsical, or extraordinary, being fairly represented, as becomes a faithful historican, who is fully determined not to sacrifice truth a the shrine of guilt and folly / taken in short-hand by a civilian.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Civilian.

Doctors' Commons (London, England), issuing body.

Series:

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trials (Divorce)--Great Britain.

Trials (Divorce).

Trials (Adultery)--Great Britain.

Trials (Adultery).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (7 volumes) : illustrations.

Edition:

A new edition, embellished with elegant prints.

Other Title:

Trials for adultery, or, The history of divorces

Notes:

Vol. 1: 1781; v. 2: 1780; v. 3: 1779; v. 4: 1780; v. 5: 1780; v. 6: 1780; v. 7: 1780.

Edition statement on title page of v. 1 only.

Reproduction of the originals from Kinsey Institute.

OCLC:

1113890028