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1872222730Neuchatel: Société des Bibliophiles Cosmopolites 1872. Réimpression textuelle de l'édition originale Caprée 1789. Avec une Note Bibliographique. No. 45 of 100 copies. vii 1 63 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Blue paper boards linen spine with black leather label small chip. Boards a little rubbed at edges spine a bit soiled internally fine. Réimpression textuelle de l'édition originale Caprée 1789. Avec une Note Bibliographique. No. 45 of 100 copies. vii 1 63 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Scandalous biographical sketches of certain "femmes galantes" which first appeared in 1789. Gay I: 579. Gay I: 579 <br/><br/> Société des Bibliophiles Cosmopolites hardcover
18285421London: T. Birt 1828. First edition. Single sheet measuring 250 x 185mm and printed in two columns to recto. Some edgewear to margins not affecting text; a bit of foxing and toning largely confined to margins. A scarce and delicate survivor OCLC documents only one example at the National Library of Scotland. The present is the only example on the market.<br /> <br /> The Dandy Wife is narrated by a man who aimed "to choose me out a loving wife" at the age of twenty-one but whose experience becomes a warning to "all young men of high renown": "If you want a tidy wife Beware of a boarding school." What unfolds is a satire of how the marriage economy is affected when women have access to knowledge -- intellectual and physical -- and how by meeting a man's superficial expectations a woman can fulfill her own more pressing needs.<br /> <br /> Thinking that a boarding school girl will have the innocence submissiveness and domestic skill he desires the narrator selects a wife from among their ranks. Thinking only of what he can obtain from such a bargain he is unprepared for what an educated woman brings into his house. The Dandy Wife he describes understands the commodity value of her own beauty and material adornment and that these are her key means for acquiring wealth of her own. "She takes one-half of what I earn In drinking gin and tea; Besides such frills and furbelows My Dandy Wife does wear.Her sleeves upon her dandy gown Oh! Lack they're such a size You'd think they were two balloons that in the air would rise." Aside from staying on par with fashion trends her clothing assists her in avoiding domestic tasks she abhors. She refuses to do laundry more than monthly and through ridiculous cooking failures she rapidly establishes that the kitchen is not a showcase for her skillset. Accustomed to a life of learning she is not trained to conduct domestic business. <br /> <br /> By the ballad's end it becomes clear that the Dandy Wife was savvier in managing a marriage than her husband was. For not only does her superior intellect help her carve out a more satisfying role but she also has physical knowledge that predates him: "The day that I was married I thought I'd got a charming maid But I was much deceived.For scarce five months we'd married been When she had a darling son. T. Birt unknown
18304844Paris 1830. 8vo. Peytieux colophon: Sétier Later black half morocco with short-title on spine marbled paper sides. With a lithographed title-page with an illustration and a small woodcut decoration on the letterpress title-page. 14 2 pp. Very rare first and only edition of a short play criticizing new regulations issued by the Paris police in 1830 regarding prostitution specifically the ordinance proclaiming that prostitutes were no longer allowed to go out on the streets at night. The author argues that the new regulations are bad for business since one does not buy something without having seen it first. The play ends with the ladies of pleasure bidding adieu to France. They will go to a less barbaric country suggesting America in the knowledge that they will soon be missed as France "cannot do without them". Lithographed title-page closely trimmed at the outer margin some minor foxing otherwise in very good condition.l CCfr 3 copies; Gay-Lemonnyer II 312; WorldCat 1 same copy; not in Sudoc. unknown
