Birth Control, 19th century

Notebook containing a transcript of Charles Knowlton's Fruits of Philosophy, the private companion of young married people, first published in the USA in 1832 (first British edition 1833), with minor textual variations, 19th century. The copyist and date of transcription are unknown, but the text was probably copied at a date before the work became more widely available in Britain following the unsuccessful prosecution of Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant for reissuing the work in 1877-78; see S Chandrasekhar, "A Dirty, Filthy Book" (Berkeley, 1981). The transcript lacks the publisher's preface, author's philosophical proem' and appendix.

19th century

1 volume 1 volume, 160 x 100 mm., pp. (85-100 blank). Various later notes and sketches on pp. 82-84 and 101-102. Coloured transfers of birds and roses have been added to the inside of the rear fly leaf. Black, blind-stamped leather-covered boards.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Ownership inscription inside front fly leaf: "Miss Lissie M Jon[es?]".