(PROSTITUTIO - SEXUAL ETHICS - Social Moirés) W. Giles The Victim, in Five Letters to Adolphus. By the Author of "The Guide and Refuge." Pittsfield, [Massachusetts]: Printed by Seymour and Smith, 1807. Small octavo, in eights, 69 pages.5½ x 3½ inches. First American Edition? [printed also in Hartford in 1807.] Blue gray paper over wooden boards, spine backed in calf. Loss to paper and wood to upper cover; rear free endpaper with loss; long inter-textual tear to A5 now mended with no loss of text, old tobacco odor. Giles was well-known for his "Guide to Domestic Happiness" which had gone through at least eleven editions in England by 1817. The present title (published anonymously in London in 1800 by Giles) made only a brief appearance on the American market. "The Victim" warns Adolphus, a gentleman, against the depravity and immorality of prostitution and speaks of sexual ethics. This copy bears a contemporary presentation gift inscription from a Thomas Eggleston to a James R. Robbins. Eggleston's name is also on the title page. [Shaw & Shoemaker 14122, (MWA). OCLC, one location.] Price: USD 125.00 other currencies   order no. 141186    inquire

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