Lot 157
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[Puritan marriage guide]
A Bride-Bush: or, a Direction for Married Persons
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
… by William Whately, Minister and Preacher of Gods Word in Banburie in Oxfordshiere. London: Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1619. 4to (18.1 x 13cm), 20th-century roan-backed marbled boards, bound without the initial blank, B1 torn along lower margin with loss to some words, damp-staining [ESTC S119722; STC 25297]
Footnote
Second and best edition of this popular 17th-century treatise on marriage, greatly expanded from the unauthorised first edition. 'Whately repudiated the first edition of A Bride-Bush of 1617 because it was published from notes without his permission. The second edition, which was printed in 1619, was much expanded and may be regarded as the definitive version of this work. It contradicted the first edition by arguing that it was lawful for a man to beat his wife if she had repeatedly and wilfully disobeyed him, an opinion which was at variance with the majority of English clerical authorities at the time. Whately also argued in both editions that divorce and remarriage were allowable for the innocent party on the grounds of adultery or desertion. This accorded with continental reformed practice, but was not accepted in England, and Whately was forced to recant his views on divorce by the high commission in 1621’ (ODNB).