Celebrated Trial of Rev. J. H. Fairchild, for the Alleged Seduction of Miss Rhoda Davidson, Together with His Own Defence Before the Council

by Wm. B. English

$125 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

Boston: 1844. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 24cm . Printed pink paper wrappers; 32pp; wood engraving of Fairchild on front cover and final page. Untrimmed, rubbed with marginal chips, covers detached, minor foxing: Good only. Fairchild, a Congregationalist minister, was tried for seducing Rhoda Davidson, a domestic worker in his employ. This pamphlet reports on his trial by an Ecclesiastical Council, in

• Binding: Wrappers

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