Research Catalog

Title

The husband : in answer to The wife.

Author

Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756.

Publication

London : Printed for T. Gardner, at Cowley's Head, facing St. Clement's Church in the Strand, 1756.

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Description

[2], v, [1], 279, [1] p.; 18 cm. (12mo)

Subject

• Marriage > Early works to 1800
• Husbands > Early works to 1800
• Tobacco use > Early works to 1800

Note

• Advertisement for "The wife, by the same author": p. [vi].
• Publisher's advertisements, apparently for works by Haywood: p. [280].
• Signatures: pi⁴ B-M¹² N⁸.
• "There are also other particulars [besides drinking], which ... may chance to be equally disagreeable to some very nice lady; -- such as smoaking, or chewing tobacco; or even taking snuff, especially in bed ... A man, however, who finds his wife has an aversion to the smell of tobacco, may ... order some nook or corner in his house to be set apart, to which he may retire [to smoke] ... there are various sorts of comfits, which ... will entirely purify his breath from the late fumes ..."--P. 41-42.

Call Number

Arents 95-436

OCLC

• 4088971
• NYPG89-B24432

Author

Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756.

Title

The husband : in answer to The wife.

Imprint

London : Printed for T. Gardner, at Cowley's Head, facing St. Clement's Church in the Strand, 1756.

Local Note

Binding: Contemporary brown calf, gilt.

Provenance: Barbara Herbert, afterfwords Countess of Aldborough (armorial bookplate on front pastedown; superexlibris); Nevile Rodwell Wilkinson (armorial bookplate).

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Local Subject

Aldborough, Barbara Herbert Stratford, Countess of, d. 1785 -- Provenance.

Wilkinson, Nevile Rodwell, Sir, 1869-1940 -- Provenance.

Added Author

Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756. Wife.

Research Call Number

Arents 95-436