12/16/2009 20:44
An advertisement for James Watson’s reprint of Charles Knowlton’s Fruits of Philosophy, in the London Examiner, January 17, 1836. The Watson edition is the one Charles Watts acquired the plates of (in a bulk purchase from Watson’s estate) and reprinted until 1876, when he was charged with obscenity. Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant then formed the Freethought Publishing Company and reprinted Knowlton’s book, leading to the famous 1878 trial that forever changed the British birth rate.Tags: London, Bradlaugh, Knowlton
