Author: MATRIMONY.
Title: The Matrimonial Preceptor. A Collection of Examples and Precepts Relating to the Married State From the most Celebrated Writers Ancient and Modern. Being the Third Edition, Adorn'd with a beautiful Frontispiece not in the former.
Description: [London], Printed (by Assignment from Thomas Hope) for T. Lowndes..., T. Field..., Stuart & Payment...., W. Nichol..., and J. Johnson..., [1765]. 12mo, pp. [vi], 309 [310 - 312 adverts], engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page, contemporary calf; top of spine defective, with most of leather in top panel gone, front joint cracked (but firm). With the "Atchievement" [sic] of the Right Honble. the Lord Power and Curraghmore on the front paste-down end-paper and "Mary Power/Curraghmore 1766" tipped in on a small slip before the front free end-paper. This work was first published in 1755, and this third edition was the last to be published in the 18th century. Despite the claim on the title-page, the frontispiece also appeared in the second edition (1759).

Keywords: marriage manners prose


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