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[8], xix, [1], 448pp; [4], 547, [1]p; [4], 496pp; [2], 468, [20]pp index. 8vo. A v.g. clean copy. Full contemporary sprinkled calf, raised & gilt banded spines, red morocco labels From the Invercauld library. v.g. ESTC T144848, Edinburgh, Representative Church Body, York; Gottingen; Winnipeg. First published 1757-8. 'Dodd, a clergyman, was a social-climber, dilettante and bon viveur who, in order to support his lifestyle, put himself in terrible debt. In 1777, he was tried for forgery and sentenced to death by hanging. Finding himself in insurmountable debt, he had forged a bond in the name of his friend the Earl of Chesterfield for £4,200. The Earl himself did not wish for the prosecution to proceed, but matters were out of his hands. Even at his trial, the jurors themselves did not wish for Dodd to be condemned to death. There followed a petition of 37,000 to have him pardoned. Samuel Johnson and others vigorously petitioned for his life to be spared and the matter eventually reached the King. Despite Dodd having once been the King's own chaplain, George III decided that he could not make a special case, and the flamboyant reverend's fate was sealed. Or was it? One of Dodd's many past preoccupations was the development of a method to resuscitate victims of hanging. He collaborated on this with the eminent surgeon Dr Hunter and even published a paper on it. The procedure involved the immersion of the corpse in a warm bath. Immediately after his execution at Tyburn, Dodd's friends rushed his body to a private house and attempted his own innovation to return him to life, but unfortunately their efforts failed.' Ref: M. Paterson. The Hanging of Dr Dodd, the Macaroni Parson, 2010. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 74583
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