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Hobes, Gustav [d.i. August Bohse (1661-1742), sonst Talander ps.]Antiquariat.de

[Erotic Satire] [Widows and Sexuality] [Marriage and Economics]Biblio.com

The Triumph of Sentiment - The Prospect of Happiness - or a Picture for Dotards

18005629London: S. W. Fores 1800. First edition. Illustrated hand-colored broadside measuring 270 x 400mm and printed to verso only. Faint offsetting to recto and faint traces of mounting to corners. In all a Fine example of this visual satire commenting on the phenomenon of younger men seeking marriage with elderly widows for their own financial gain -- and the cultural anxiety surrounding the marital sexuality of such brides. Unrecorded in ESTC and OCLC we have located two examples of the present work at the British Museum and Yale. The present broadside draws together a wide matrix of debates and social anxieties surrounding the economic and sexual status of widows and the financial motivations for marriage among second sons and men of the middle class. Though women were more frequently forced into experiencing marriage as a form of 'honorable prostitution' in which their physical desirability served as their key for accessing wealth and stability under coverture it was increasingly acknowledged that large swaths of young men also suffered under this system. And while widows could escape the system -- shifting from the disempowered femme covert to the more legally independent femme sole on their husbands' deaths -- there was both a social fantasy of reinserting them into the marriage market as a means for regaining control over their money and bodies as well as a social anxiety about their ability to corrupt through the range of knowledge and authority they gained through previous marital experience. Here a young man walks his aging crone down the aisle. Ornately clad and expressing her anticipation for "the comforts of matrimony" she is ridiculed by the ministers at the pulpit who posit that if "matrimony was first ordained.for a remedy against fornication" then "the remedy will be worse than the disease" in this instance. Untroubled the young groom focuses on the land deeds bank notes and jewelry accounts which stuff his pockets -- assets which will legally become his after the ceremony and which serve as his marital comforts. Meanwhile two young women observe from the sidelines one of them planning her future with the groom after his aging bride's eventual demise. "Those jewels will look better on me than on the last owner" she notes as her companion whispers hopefully "you'll let me take a morning ride with you sometimes." A visual commentary on the financial and social issues surrounding marriage under coverture which Daniel Defoe would deride as "matrimonial whoredom." British Museum 1935.0522.8.109. Yale Center for British Art B1974.12.328. S. W. Fores unknown

Whitmore Rare Books · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

EROTIC SATIRE — [POMPADOUR, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de]Biblio.com

Portrait de Madame la Marquise de Pompadour fait par elle-même

17564477Paris: s.n. 1756. 12mo 169 x 96 mm. 10 2 blank pages. Woodcut ornament on title. Title soiled. Extra-illustrated with three states of an engraved bust portrait of Mme. Pompadour in two states of which two avant la lettre one in black and one in sepia the latter on very thick paper and one with lettering Mme. de Pompadour. Jansenist blue-green morocco turn-ins gilt gilt edges silk ribbon marker 5 blank leaves at front and 6 at back spine slightly sunned. Provenance: Jules Noilly his gilt monogrammed booklabel sale Paris 15-20 March 1886 lot 432 lot ticket preserved. First and apparently only edition of a loosely constructed mildly satirical erotic poem almost a prose poem that pretends to be a self-celebration by Louis XVâ€™s mistress friend and influential advisor Madame de Pompadour. Praising her own looks â€” her skin face eyes mouth and hair even her â€œtwo-storey chinâ€ standards of beauty change she moves on to her intelligence wit lack of pretense carefully constructed and other attractions finally circling back to the most enticing part of all for the lascivious male. The culmination of the poem is a rather trite metaphorical description of her â€œprivate partsâ€ as a welcoming grotto and the mounting excitement of the daydreaming poetess. In the last lines she shakes herself: â€œwhat am I saying where is the rhyme taking meâ€ and she summons a cold shower in the form of â€œthe sad reminder of a husband a mother a hunchbacked prelate and a battleaxe of an Abbess.â€ The first two references may be to Mme de Pompadourâ€™s husband Charles-Guillaume Le Normant d'Ã‰tiolles and to her by then deceased mother Madeleine de La Motte; I have not identified the other two. An enlightened patron of literature and the arts Mme de Pompadour would have scoffed at this silly concoction but the generally complimentary if disrespectful tone of the piece implies that it may have been produced by someone in her circle. It is not a Poissonade in the classic sense. The pamphlet was sometimes bound with various editions of Mme de Pompadourâ€™s equally apocryphal letters. The Parisian bibliophile Jules Noilly had this fineÂ copy bound by Marius-Michel with three states of a small oval stipple-engraved portrait of Mme de Pompadour which he or the cataloguer of his collection described as â€œafter CÃ©roniâ€; cf. Catalogue de livres rares et curieux anciens et modernes et d'une prÃ©cieuse collection de livres de l'Ã‰cole Romantique composant la bibliothÃ¨que de M. J. Noilly Paris: veuve Labitte 1886 lot 432. s.n. unknown

Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. · États-Unis2 100,00 $US≈ 1 776,81 €

[Erotic Literature] A CivilianBiblio.com

Trials for Adultery: or the History of Divorces. Being Select Trials at Doctors Commons for Adultery Cruelty Fornication Impotence &c. From the Year 1760 to the present Time. Vols 1-6 only

17803796London: Printed for S. Bladon 1780. First edition. Contemporary full calf covers decoratively bordered in blind spines with four wide raised bands decoratively tooled in gilt and blind in compartments two green morocco labels lettered in gilt blind-stamped board edges and turn-ins all edges gilt. Some minor wear to a few corners otherwise a near fine set. Volumes 1-6 only of 7. Six octavo volumes 7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 197 x 124 mm. Collating 392; 392; 404 384; 426 of 428; 406. Twenty-one of twenty-four fine engraved plates. Volume I lacking two of the engraved plates Daly facing page 39 and Draper facing page 20 and clean inner marginal tear on Q4 pages 5/6; Volume II with light marginal stain on 3A4 pages 59/50; Volume IV Z3 pages 87/88 trimmed at fore-margin; Volume V Z3 pages 55/56 trimmed at fore-margin and lacking last leaf 3H4 pages. 305/306 Address to the Public verso blank; Volume VI lacking one engraved plate Grosvenor facing pages 114. Armorial bookplate on front paste-down of each volume and early ink signature of Thos. Grant at top of title-pages. Trials for Adultery was published over a period of two years and was completed in seven volumes with thirty engraved plates. Because of their 'pornographic' nature some or all of the plates are often not found. In our set three of the plates have been excised by a previous owner. "The genre of pornographic trial reports was fully developed in the late 1770s a fact which is borne out by the publication in seven volumes of a special collection of interesting cases Trials for Adultery: or the History of Divorces. The editor remarks to the reader that 'conjugal infidelity is become so general that it is hardly considered as criminal; especially in the fashionable world'. In view of the many erotic and obscene prints contained in the seven volumes the moral justifications offered in defence of the publication of the trial reports appear quite ridiculous if not hypocritical. Mostly erotic but occasionally also obscene such pictorial material now became a standard feature of trial reports for the rest of the century" Boucé. Printed for S. Bladon unknown

Whitmore Rare Books · États-Unis2 500,00 $US≈ 2 115,25 €

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