DEFOE, DANIEL]. A Treatise Concerning The Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed. London: Printed for T. Warner, 1727. 8vo, green morocco gilt, g.e., by Riviere, joints and corners a bit rubbed, light stain at bottom of covers, final blank not preserved. FIRST EDITION, Second Issue with a cancel title. The first issue, with the zestier title of Conjugal Lewdness: Or, Matimonial Whoredom , appeared in January 1727; the second, in June of that year. Defoe discusses such still current topics as "The Diabolical Practice of attempting to prevent Childbearing by Physical Preparations," and "How married Persons may be guilty of Conjugal Lewdness, and that a Man may, in effect, make a Whore of his own Wife." Moore 489; Rothschild 781. 1852 bookplate of John Sheepshanks; "Charles Whibley" bookplate.
DEFOE, DANIEL]. A Treatise Concerning The Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed. London: Printed for T. Warner, 1727. 8vo, green morocco gilt, g.e., by Riviere, joints and corners a bit rubbed, light stain at bottom of covers, final blank not preserved. FIRST EDITION, Second Issue with a cancel title. The first issue, with the zestier title of Conjugal Lewdness: Or, Matimonial Whoredom , appeared in January 1727; the second, in June of that year. Defoe discusses such still current topics as "The Diabolical Practice of attempting to prevent Childbearing by Physical Preparations," and "How married Persons may be guilty of Conjugal Lewdness, and that a Man may, in effect, make a Whore of his own Wife." Moore 489; Rothschild 781. 1852 bookplate of John Sheepshanks; "Charles Whibley" bookplate.
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