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Author: [Defoe, Daniel]
Title: A treatise concerning the use and abuse of the marriage bed...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Printed for T. Warner at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster-Row
Date Published: 1727
Description:

vi, [2], 406 + 4 ad pp. (8vo) 19.4x11.7 cm (7¾x4½"), late 19th/early 20th century full red levant morocco with triple gilt filet borders, spine elaborately tooled in gilt with bird bath motif, gilt lettering, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition, second issue.

The second issue with a cancel title, replacing that of the first issue, which was a little catchier perhaps, "Conjugal Lewdness: Or, Matrimonial Whoredom." The first issue 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."

The full title, going into great detail as to the contents:

A treatise concerning the use and abuse of the marriage bed: shewing I. The nature of matrimony, its sacred original, and the true meaning of its institution. II. The gross abuse of matrimonial chastity, from the wrong notions which have possessed the world, degenerating even to whoredom. III. The diabolical practice of attempting to prevent child-bearing by physical preparations. IV. The fatal Consequences of clandestine or forced Marriages, thro' the Persuasion, Interest, or Influence of Parents and Relations, to wed the Person they have no Love for, but oftentimes an Aversion to. V. Of unequal Matches, as to the Disproportion of Age; and how such, many ways, occasion a Matrimonial Whoredom. VI. How married persons may be guilty of conjugal lewdness, and that a man may, in effect, make a whore of his own wife. Also, many other particulars of family concern

Faint, barely discernible bump to top edge of rear cover, as also to corners; expert restoration to title page, slight aging within; very good or better, binding near fine and attractive.