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Independently published, 2017. Paperback. New. 107 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.27 inches.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2006-06-08. Paperback. Used:Good.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. hardcover. New. 8x0x11. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: printed for T. Warner,, 1727. First edition, with a facsimile title page. The fullest expression of Defoe's thoughts on marriage, the treatise argues against abortion and contraception. The book was first published as Conjugal Lewdness; contemporary critics attacked the original title, and the book was reissued with a cancel title page bearing a new, more polite, title: A Treatise Concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed. The facsimile title page bound in this copy is photocopied from the second issue. Although Conjugal Lewdness was published anonymously, there is no debate as to Defoe's authorship of it. It was one of a series of practical divinity or domestic conduct books in which he employed innovative and recognisably novelistic techniques. "Although the dialogue form had been used in conduct books before, Defoe's was highly original in its leisurely creation of characters, relationships, and stories. Most conduct books were composed of brief essays, summary 'morals', and lists… Read More

London: T. Warner, 1727. First edition, second issue without the words "Conjugal Lewdness" in the main title. Daniel Defoe (ca. 1660-1731) published this essay under the original title of "Conjugal Lewdness or Matrimonial Whoredom" (1717) before being asked to rename it for the sake of propriety. This copy shows the cancel title mounted to a stub (as it should be!) Contemporary full calf, gold-tooled filets, fleurons on boards and coat of arms of Earl Stanley on upper board, ribbed spine with gold-tooling, inner filets in gold-tooling, all edged gilt. Boards have been repaired and the spine re-laid onto the back. Internally clean and tidy throughout, with just a touch of foxing to the pages. vi, [2], 406 pp. 195 x 125mm (7¾ x 5 inches). Despite changing the title, Defoe's text is unchanged. In this essay "concerning the Use and Abuse of the marriage bed", Defoe deals with contraception and compares it with infanticide, "the diabolical practice of attempting to prevent childbearing by physical… Read More