Search Results: Sexuality from Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA)

London: Printed for Charles Green, [1747]. First edition.

Wrappers sunned; first and last page somewhat dust-soiled, with a little scattered internal soiling; in very good condition.

Removed pamphlet glued into later wrappers, 7.5 x 4.88 inches, [4], 78, [2] pages.

An object lesson in affairs of the heart, the public and at times fairly explicit defense of a rather sordid affair that led to charge of bigamy against the Member of Parliament Creswell, who had been accused by Gervase Scrope of abandoning his sister Eliza Scrope, to whom Creswell had contracted a hasty and (as it was determined in later court proceedings) perfectly legal marriage.

Creswell here writes, "My Design is to relate Truth and plain Matters of Fact; by which it will appear I am Culpable in some Things (as what Man is there that is not) yet I deserve not that base and scandalous Treatment I have met with."
In Creswell's version of the tale, Miss Scrope--without fortune but burning with love--tries by turns both hysterical fits… Read More

New York: William Wood & Co., 1870. Third edition, substantially revised. Spine and portions of the boards slightly sunned, some light bumping at the head and foot of the spine; the slightest hint of cracking to the coated paper along the front hinge, but quite sound; in very good condition. 12mo (7.5 x 5 inches), original purple cloth, gilt lettering, 120 pages, title stamped in gilt on the upper board but no notice of the edition. No evidence of a frontispiece. No copyright notice on the verso of the title page. "The vice of masturbation is undoubtedly the chief cause. The growth of the sexual apparatus at the period of puberty is accompanied by abundant secretion of the seminal fluid, which accumulates in the reservoirs. The sexual instinct, then fully developed, exerts a powerful influence over the mind, whilst the reason is not in a sufficiently matured state to correct the mirages of the imagination. An accidental friction of the erect organ in these moments of delirium makes the unfortunate… Read More

London: Camden Publishing Company, Upper Street, N., [ca. 1900].

A little soiled and worn; a trifle foxed; in very good condition.

12mo (5.13 x 3.63 inches), original red cloth stamped in black and gilt, [1-4], [5]-474 pages. Two colored plates inserted before the title page (included in the pagination), illustrations in the text.

A handsome little cheap edition of the Master-Piece, etc., printed from moderately battered plates and in all some measure of the enduring popularity of this folk sex and medicine manual.

London: Printed for Cocker, Harris, and Finn, and Sold by All Booksellers, [ca. 1830s]. Boards a bit rubbed and bumped; some light foxing and soiling; in very good condition.

12mo (5.88 x 3.75 inches), entirely rebound with a new leather spine and red morocco label, with the original stamped sheep laid down over cardstock sides, new endpapers, 322 pages. Engraved frontispiece, illustrations in the text.

Atwater notes three different editions of the pseudo-Aristotle published under this imprint in the 1830s, one of 342 pages, another of 141, [3], 156 pages, and this one of 322 pages. See Atwater 130 (the 141, [3], 156 page edition).

Title page mounted in the gutter to a stub, touching a few letters.