Description

The Physiology of Marriage - or Eclectic Philosophical Meditations on the Happiness and Unhappiness of Marriage, published by a young bachelor.

First edition in the format in-18 large Jesus vellum.

It follows the publication, by the same publisher and in the same format, of the Physiology of taste by Billat-Savarin.
This format, known as Charpentier, was introduced by Gervais Charpentier to compete with Belgian counterfeits, which had been proliferating since 1815 to the detriment of sales of luxury French in-8 volumes.

According to the important notice opposite the title: "Each of these two works will be the counterpart of the other, in libraries, as they have been for a long time in the opinion of people of wit and taste"..

The fourth plate, whose design is identical to the first, announces the sale of the Physiology of taste.

A beautifully bound copy.