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runaway success; he was said to have made more than £20,000 from it.

The unfortunate Cleland received only his pittance and a reprimand from the Privy Council. Another bookseller who wrote in more titillating details was put in the pillory.

Griffiths even puffed the book in his own magazine – without disclosing his interest. “The style has peculiar neatness and the characters are naturally drawn.” He didn’t specify to what, and added disingenuously: “as to the step recently taken to suppress this book we are really at a loss to account for it.”

The rear of Linden House shortly before it was demolished in 1878 to make way for terraces of Victorian houses in what is now called Linden Gardens.

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THE FATAL CUP

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