[Rarebooks] fs: For Entertaining the Lovely Girls of Dublin...

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

[Gaya, Louis de] MATRIMONIAL CEREMONIES DISPLAYED... collected from the
Papers of A Rambling Bachelor with a variety of Remarks by him, Serious
and Humorous... London; Printed for H. Serjeant: nd (c.1895).

"Wherein are exhibited the various customs, odd pranks, whimsical tricks
and surprising practices of near one hundred different kingdoms and people
in the world, now used in celebration and consummation of matrimony... to
which is added the comical Adventures of Sir Harry Fitzgerald, who had
seven wives, with the character of each -a genuine story. Also an epigram
on matrimony, in Latin and English; and an alphabetical index. Printed for
the information and entertainment of the ladies and pretty girls of Great
Britain, not forgetting those of Dublin and Tipperary".

A curious little book. The pretty girls of Dublin and Tiperrary
notwithstanding, it was first published in France in 1680 and translated
into English by Thomas Brown in 1704.

Hardcover. 5.25"x8", 103 pages; publisher's green cloth with gilt pine
title, embossed cover emblem; covers with some soil and a little wear;
front hinge starting; text lightly browned, title page more so. [05020]
$150.00



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