The Hall of Science libel case. With a full and true account of "The Leeds Orgies", edited, with introduction, by G. W. Foote
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Place of publication: London
Collation: 58, [6] p. ; 19 cm.
Notes: Publisher's advertisements on unnumbered pages at the end. A libel suit against John Snow and Messrs. Cook & Co. by Robert Owen Smith and the National Secular Society. Snow and Cook & Co. were sued for publishing a pamphlet entitled, 'Is secularism degrading?' (from a speech by Christian Evidence lecturer Walton Powell), that charged that the Hall of Science where the National Secular Society held its meetings was used for a class in which boys were taught "self-abuse". Part of the NSS pamphlet collection.
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Judicial scandals and errors. I. Press censorship and compromise
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Place of publication: London
Collation: iv, 7-58 p. : ill. (fac.) ; 25 cm.
Notes: Front cover printed in red and black. Singer is the pseudonym of George Ferdinand Springmuhl von Weissenfeld. Concerns the trial of George Bedborough, publisher of Havelock Ellis' Studies in the psychology of sex. Part of the NSS pamphlet collection.
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The three trials of William Hone : for publishing three parodies : viz. The late John Wilkes's catechism, the political litany, and the sinecurist's creed : on three ex-officio informations, at Guildhall, London, during three successive days, December 18,19, & 20, 1817 : before three special juries, and Mr. Justice Abbott, on the first day, and Lord Chief Justice Ellenborough, on the last two days.
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Place of publication: London
Collation: 243, 6 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes: A collection of all three trials celebrating Hone's innocence on charges of profane and seditious libel and upholding freedom of the press. Printed by and for William Hone,67, Old Bailey. William Hone was an English writer, satirist and bookseller. His victorious court battle against government censorship in 1817 marked a turning point in the fight for British press freedom. Stamp of Hall of Science Club and Institute on title page and elsewhere. Part of the NSS pamphlet collection.
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