[Rarebooks] FS: Very scarce 18th cent. English potboiler

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[Victor, Benjamin]. THE WIDOW OF THE WOOD. London: Printed for C. Corbett. 
1755. First edition. 12mo. viii,208pp. Finely bound by T. G. Lomax Lichfield in 
blind & gilt stamped straight-grained green morocco, spine darkened, hinges 
scuffed. A.e.g. Occasional foxing. Old ownership signature on title.     $350.00 
(trade discount allowed)
An autograph leaf (by a previous owner) of explanation on the verso of the 
front free endpaper records that this work was founded on a real occurrence and 
identifies the unnamed woman as Ann Northey. It goes on to say that her son 
attempted to suppress the scandal against his mother’s character by buying up 
and destroying all the copies he could find.

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