NMLP P-042575 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill)

John Cleland · 'G. Fenton' in the Strand, London — a false imprint for Fenton and Ralph Griffiths; printed by Thomas Parker · 1749

The imprint reads 'London: printed [by Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton in the Strand, 1749' and is false in the name only: 'G. Fenton' is an inversion of Fenton Griffiths, brother of the bookseller and publisher Ralph Griffiths, who was the real publisher and who later blamed his brother for the book

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-042575 for "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill)" by John Cleland (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042575, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).