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. ... 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.

Author/creator Defoe, Daniel
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : printed for T. Warner, at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]
Descriptionvi, 2 unnumbered pages, 406 pages ; 8⁰.
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Uniform titleConjugal lewdness
General noteAnonymous. By Daniel Defoe.
General noteA reissue of 'conjugal lewdness' of the same year, with a cancel titlepage.
General notePp.382-383 misnumbered 362-363. Variant p.298 misnumbered 288.
General noteReproduction of original from the British Library.
References Moore, 489
References English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT70647.
Reproduction noteJoyner- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements
Genre/formEssays England 18th century.

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