23 pp. Hand-colored folding etched frontispiece by George Cruikshank. 7x4¼, full red levant morocco, spine titled in gilt, raised bands, gilt inner denelles, top edges gilt; bound by Riviere.

Lurid tale of Mary Hamilton, the male impersonator who was "tried at the Summer Session, in the County of Somerset, in the year 1752, Found Guilty, and whipped four several times, in four Market Towns, and afterwards imprisoned Six Months...she attempted to bribe the Gaoler to procure for her a fine young Girl to gratify her most monstrous and Unnatural Propensity." The folding frontispiece shows her being whipped in a public square. With the bookplate of Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons.