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hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Title = the ten pleasures of marriage and the second part of the confession of the new married couple and the original twenty plates and two engraved titles re-engraved. Please note some stock images show a jacket, this copy does NOT include a jacket. Deckle edged pages. Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.…

Very Good. A study of married life from the seventeenth century, commonly attributed to female author Aphra Behn. Reprinted from the original with an introduction by John Harvey. With the original twenty plates and two engraved titles re-engraved. First edition. A very good original binding. 8vo. pp.18/[6pp.]/pp.280 . 9.0" x 6.5" x 1.5". Cream cloth covered boards, with bumped corners. Spine with gilt titles (a little dulled). Deckled page edges. Clean text and illustrations throughout. A very good book. ** Note fron COPAC (British Library): "With reproductions of original title-pages: (1) The ten pleasures of marriage, relating all the delights and contentments that are mask'd under the bands of matrimony. Written by A. Marsh, typogr. [Ornament] London, Printed in the year, 1682. (2) The confession of the new married couple, being the second part of the Ten pleasures of marriage. Relating the further delights and contentments that ly mask'd under the bands of wedlock. Written by A. Marsh. Typogr. [Ornament] London, Printed in the year 1683." *** "The Ten Pleasures Of Marriage And The Second Part, The Confession Of The New Married Couple was written in 1682 and is attributed to Aphra Behn, the dramatist and poet, the first woman to earn her living by her pen. While the pen name for the work is A. Marsh and initials at the end of the letter to the reader, marked A.B. has lead to the assumption that Aphra Behn wrote this work. - Aphra Behn was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers. Her writing contributed to the amatory fiction genre of British literature. Along with Delarivier Manley and Eliza Haywood, she is sometimes referred to as part of "The fair triumvirate of wit.". …