[Rarebooks] fs--Beau Feilding

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer,

[BIGAMY, WIFE BEATING, AND SEXUAL LICENSE].  The Arraignment,
Tryal, and Conviction of Robert Feilding, Esq; for Felony, In
Marrying Her Grace The Dutchess of Cleaveland; His first Wife Mrs.
Mary Wadsworth, Being then Alive [with] the Proceedings . . . at
Doctors Commons [etc.]. Folio.  Printed for John Morphew near
Stationers-Hall, London, 1708.  Modern panelled sprinkled calf,
definite browning, one leaf cropped with the loss of one or two
lines of text recto and verso, else a good, crisp copy. [72107]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=72107
                                                        $ 1,500.00

The trial of 'Beau' Feilding, an amazing sexual rogue whose rakish
lifestyle Swift satirized in 'Orlando the Fair' and whose bigamy
conviction was the successful test-case for the legality of
marriages performed by Roman Catholic priests in England.

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