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The Widow of the Wood

Author(s):

Victor, Benjamin

Illustrator(s):

Binding:

Hardcover

Volume Condition:

Very Good

Dust Jacket:

Dust Jacket Condition:

N/A

Dust Jacket Protection:

N/A

Edition:

1st Edition

Impression:

–

Signature:

None

Language:

English

Publisher Name:

Printed for C Corbett

Publication Year:

1755

Publication Place:

London, UK

ISBN:

–

Book ID:

000479

Catalogue(s):

History – British ◇ Rare and Antiquarian Books

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First edition. viii, 208pp, ii. One of two editions printed for C Corbett in 1755. This copy is complete with a half title page, postscript and addendum giving details of lottery scheme. Squirrel device on title page. Two bird and urn device on p. 206. Full leather binding with five raised bands to spine. Boards heavily rubbed & chipped but solid. Inscription on endpapers and some old manuscript annotations to first few pages where an old hand has tried to identify the characters depicted. Slightly shaken and some minor page tanning consistent with age of volume. Nice copy of hard to find volume.

The ‘widow of the wood’ was Ann Northey Whitby Wolseley. Her dalliances and serial marriages are chronicled here by the theatre manager and Ireland’s poet laureate, Benjamin Victor. Includes letters and legal facts connected with Northey and Sir William Wolseley, although they are not identified in the book. The Staffordshire Wolseleys were so scandalised by the book’s publication that one descendant of Northey’s fourth husband bought up and burned as many copies as he could.

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