THE WOMAN OF HONOR by John Cleland Start Price USD 5,000.00 Current Price USD 5,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, July 17, 2008 End Time Sunday, July 27, 2008 Location Sarasota, FL See more about ' THE WOMAN OF HONOR' Description THE WOMAN OF HONOR   JOHN CLELAND 1768 AN EPISTOLATORY NOVEL IN 3 OCTAVO VOLUMES.  Cleland wrote Fanny Hill in 1748-9 "The memoirs of a woman of pleasure", for which he was tried for obsenity (corrupting the king's subjects).  The judge at his trial told him to write more morally elevating works.  This is the result, an epistolatory novel in three volumes.  Fanny Hill is still in print (the last trial of the book for obsenity was in 1963 in Boston), but "The Woman of Honor" is forgotten.  There are 8 copies  in libraries in the United States and England.  The boards are missing, and the spine is almost gone, but the book's pages are intact, no pages are missing,  and no writing except on the back page of Volume I is the name Mary [?m],upside down on the back  of the end paper, and on the inside of the title page of I in faint writng "there are some good  sentiments in this book.  Full margins, no croppingMinamal  decay on the end papers on III.the only dog ears are in III 1x0.5 cm inferior outer 3 on the front and 2 in back.  It can be readily recovered in full calf with gold stamping on the spine. Insurance mandatory depending on final bid, shipping by USPS, rate dependant on mode. or  global  express rate dependant on country i Place a Bid!