The Wife : Interspersed With a Variety of Anecdotes and Observations, and Containing Advice and Directions for All Conditions of the Marriage State
Published by Boston: Printed by A. Newell, for A. March, No. 13, Market-Square--Newburyport, 1806
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.James Arsenault & Company, ABAA
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Condition: Used
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16mo, original full calf with gilt-stamped calf lettering-piece, and gilt-stamped rules on spine. First American edition. A scarce marriage manual for women by an anonymous British author. Among the more interesting chapters are "Difference of opinion in matters of religion," "Difference of opinion in the affairs of government," "The stupidity of consulting with, or giving credit to persons who pretend to fortell future events, and "The method which a wife is justified to take, after laboring a long time under a complication of all manner of ill-usage from her husband." OCLC records ten copies. No copies in ABPC Online (1975 to present). Shaw & Shoemaker 11873. Good, front hinge cracked but front cover still firmly attached, chip at right corner of head of spine, rubbed, foxing and browning to text.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Wife : Interspersed With a Variety of Anecdotes and Observations, and Containing Advice and Directions for All Conditions of the Marriage State
- Publisher
- Boston: Printed by A. Newell, for A. March, No. 13, Market-Square--Newburyport, 1806
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
James Arsenault & Company, ABAA
Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
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James Arsenault & Company was established in 1988. Our stock includes fine and rare books in a variety of fields, including Americana & Early American Imprints, Trade Catalogs, Book Arts & Printing History, Early Photography, Plate Books, Literary First Editions, and Signed & Inscribed Books, as well as Autographs & Manuscripts, Maps, Prints, Photographs and Ephemera. We are members in good standing of the ABAA and have exhibited for many years at numerous antiquarian book fairs in the northeast and in California.…
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