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"An Essay on Woman" by John Wilkes and Thomas Potter : A Reconstruction of a Lost Book, with an Historical Essay on the Writing, Printing and Suppressing of This "Blasphemous and Obscene" Work

Part of the AMS Studies in the Eighteenth-century series
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John Wilkes has been associated with freedom of expression since 1763 when Parliament prosecuted him for printing number 45 of the "North Briton", "a false, scandalous and seditious libel".

He was then denounced as a blasphemer and libeler for "Essay on Woman".

This text tells his story.

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Product Details
AMS Press
0404635369 / 9780404635367
Hardback
821.6
01/01/2000
United States
212 pages, notes, index