Pile (Ann) Female Art; or, True and False, first edition, 3 pp. list of subscribers, errata slip bound at end, ink inscriptions to title and front pastedown, some text misbound, scattered spotting, surface soiling and damp-staining, cracking at hinges, later half morocco, stained, rubbed and bumped, 8vo, Printed by J.G. Barnard, [1807].
⁂ This exceptionally rare, complete work comprises two titles: Female Art and A Narrative of the Seizure and Confinement of Ann Brookhouse; Who Was Assaulted in One of the Streets of London… (1807). The latter recounts Ann Brookhouse’s alleged abduction by unidentified men in London—a dramatic episode that was later revealed to be a fabrication. Ann Pile, a former friend who initially believed Brookhouse’s account, authored Female Art to expose the deception and clarify that Brookhouse had invented the story.
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