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A Treatise Concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed by Defoe, Daniel - 1727
by Defoe, Daniel
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London: Printed for T. Warner, 1727. First edition. Second issue, with the replaced title page instead of the first issue title Conjugal Lewdness. Bound in full calf with gilt to spine and boards. Marbled end papers, all edges stained red, a Fine copy overall. With the bookplate of Henry B.H. Beaufoy, the famed hot-air balloonist and Royal Society bibliophile, on the front paste-down. Internally fresh and unmarked, measuring 190 x 127mm and collating vi, [2], 406: complete, with pages 382-383 misnumbered as 362-363 as noted by ESTC. Released only a few months after the first issue title brought controversy and scandal. The first issue title page last appeared at auction in 1969, while the present issue last appeared over 20 years ago at Christies in 1995. A critique of contemporary marriage practices, Defoe's text argues that men and women degrade the institution when they join together for mercenary reasons such as sex, social position, or economic stability. Wedding for these reasons leads to matrimonial whoredom rather than proper and holy matrimony. From the start, Defoe is adamant in defining marriage as companionate and equal, and in this way he lays critical groundwork for the women's rights movements of the next century. "The great Duty between the Man and his Wife, I take to consist in that of Love, in the Government of Affection...the Obligation is reciprocal, 'tis drawing in an equal Yoke; Love knows no superior or inferior, no imperious Command on one hand, no reluctant Subjection on the other...This is Matrimony in its just appointed meaning, whatever Notions our fashionable People may have of it.".
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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 Wor
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A Treatise Concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed: Shewing: I. The Nature of Matrimony... II. The gross Abuse of Matrimonial Chastity... III. The Diabolical Practice of attempting to prevent Child-bearing by Physical Preparations... IV. The fatal Consequences of clandestine or forced Marriages... V. Of un
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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…
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