{"product_id":"2940149383108","title":"The Ten Pleasures of Marriage by A. Marsh","description":"\"Of the making of many books there is no end,\" nor is there an end to\u003cbr\u003ethe Romance of books, as the little volume here, privately reprinted\u003cbr\u003eby the Navarre Society, is surely proof most positive. The original is\u003cbr\u003ea small thick volume; it bears the imprint \"London, Printed in the\u003cbr\u003eyear 1683,\" and but one perfect copy is known; that copy lay\u003cbr\u003eunappreciated in the heart of London in an antiquarian bookseller's\u003cbr\u003eshop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFortunately, however, for our literature and for students of the\u003cbr\u003emanners of the commonality of the period it was seen by a colleague,\u003cbr\u003ewho wondered why he did not know it. After purchasing it he found the\u003cbr\u003ereason why--the Bodleian Library alone possessed a copy of the work\u003cbr\u003e(imperfect); later a copy of the first part (only) appeared in the\u003cbr\u003elast portion of the sale of the great Huth Collection. The present\u003cbr\u003etext is taken from the perfect copy mentioned above.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe curious title rather damns the literary interest of the book,\u003cbr\u003ewhich presents pictures of the cit and his wife at work and play\u003cbr\u003ewhich Fielding, had he lived in the seventeenth century, might have\u003cbr\u003ewritten. The curious title rather damns the literary interest of the book, which presents pictures of the cit and his wife at work and play which Fielding, had he lived in the seventeenth century, might have written.","brand":"aqeel aslam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112002371824,"sku":"2940149383108","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149383108_p0.jpg?v=1763715806","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149383108","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}