An eccentric lecture on the art of propagating the human species, and producing a numerous and healthy offspring, &c. : Wherein is particularly recommended, that temperance and sobriety necessary for all married gentlemen, in order to perform their functions with that glowing vigour which speaks so cordially home to the female heart: the efficacious virtues of the electrical bed, in the act of copulation, &c. / Delivered at the Temple of Hymen, by Dr. Graham..
Graham, James,1745-1794.
Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick,1781-1851,former owner.StEdNL
London: : Printed for A. Roger, G. Lister, and other booksellers. Also sold by Mr. Frobisher, at York; Mr. Jackson, at Oxford; Mr. Hodson, at Cambridge; Mr. Slack, at Newcastle, &c. And by all the Doctor's friends in Scotland.,
[1783].
Author was educated, and practised in Edinburgh.
'The first edition in quarto sold at half-a-crown; this second one, in octavo, is presented to the public so low as one shilling'--advertisement by the editor on the verso of the title page.
Editor's advertisement dated London, June, 1783.
Bought at Sir Arthur Mitchell's sale Nov. 1911.
ESTC
Tipped in at the flyleaf is an undated biographical account of the author by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
Sexual intercourse