BEN SUSSAN, René (illustrator and editor). Elisabeth ABBOTT (translator) Fifteen Joys of Marriage. London; The Orion Press Ltd. 1959.
Royal 8vo.; publisher's deep red cloth pictorially blocked in gilt to upper cover, spine lettered gilt, in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [v], vi-vii, viii-[xiv] + 221; with 15 coloured plates by Ben Sussan in bold outlined colours, with accents in sang-de-boeuf; a fine copy in an equally fine, unclipped dustwrapper (45s).
First U.K. edition; issued simultaneously in the U.S. An anonymous fifteenth-century misogynistic satire on the "greatest torments, sufferings, sorrows and fifteen greatest woes in this world" to console the wedded and warn the unwary.
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