PRÉVOST, Antoine François. Woman's Love; or The Adventures of Manon Lescaut. Illus. by Signor Etti. W. Winn. [c.1850?]
Illus.; some corners creased, sl. dusting at end of text. Limp dark blue/ green cloth wraps with 'Woman of Pleasure 5/6' on front. Retaining orig. pale yellow printed wraps (back wrapper inverted); corners a little worn.
¶Not recorded on Copac. In 13 pts in smaller format, illus. in all but the last part. A piracy of the English translation by Denis C. Moylan published in 1841, of the 'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut', 1731. This once banned work had some notoriety but as the binding title shows and the price indicates, Winn was perhaps suggesting the work compared with Cleland's Fanny Hill. Etti is probably meant to suggest the artist William Etty who died in 1849. Winn was at 34 Holywell Street 1849-57 and published some bloods, but this is an unrecorded hybrid part publication.