Author: [FRY (John)]:
Title: The Case of Marriages between Near Kindred Particularly Considered, With Respect to The Doctrine of Scripture, The Law of Nature, and The Laws of England. With some Observations relating to the late Act to prevent Clandestine Marriages:
Description: London: Printed for J. Wiston, and B. White..., 1756. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 193 x 118 mms., pp. xix [xx Errata],146, rebound in 20th century quarter calf, gilt spine, marbled boards, red morocco label. A very good copy. John Fry, writing here about a man's marriage to the sister of a wife who has died, argues that a prohibition against such marriages was untenable and that it was "fit and proper" for a widower to do so. John Wesley had a copy of the work in his colletion with an inscription, almost certain in his hand, "an excellent treatise." Ellen Pollack, "Guarding the Succesion of the (E)State: Guardian-Ward Incest and the Dangers of Representation" in Delarivierer Manley's The New Atlantis (The Eighteenth Century), 1998,

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