[HILL, 'Sir' John].

Lucina sine Concubitu. A Letter humbly address'd to the Royal Society; in which is proved ... that a Woman may conceive and be brought to Bed without any Commerce with Man ...Third Edition ...

London: Printed; and sold by M. Cooper … 1750. 8vo., pp. [2], 50; modern leather-backed boards. Third edition, with a new satirical postscript. Altogether there were five London editions in 1750 (two designated ‘third’, this with pp. 50, the other pp. 35) and a Dublin printing of this popular spoof, written in revenge for the author’s rejection as a candidate for membership in the Royal Society. Signed at the end ‘Abraham Johnson’, one of the pseudonyms of the self-proclaimed ‘Sir’ John Hill.

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