Buy this book on-line HORSLER, VAL: : All for Love - Seven Centuries of Illicit LiaisonUK.KEW,RICHMOND,SURREY.The National Archives,2006. ISBN 190336597X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,[illustrated],1st edn. NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from rear of dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy, white ordered,colour photographic front panel [colour tinted postcard photograph - 'A Couple and Pink Champagne,circa 1920s],pink-lettered part-title and white-lettered sub-title and author name at front top edge.A pink spine/backstrip with white-lettered part-title and author's black-lettered name and publisher's capitalised,black initialled letter of name illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with a thumbnail colour tinted postcard photograph - 'Baiser d'Amour',a top halves, undressed kissing couple,circa 1900 to a pink background with white-lettered synopsis. Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges generally,crisp and clean with faint,light, sporadic spotting to top edges,fore-edges brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound – pristine with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean/unblemished,sharp-cornered, original plain navy blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked bronze gilt-lettered spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain pink endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,[illustrated],1st edn,7-232pp [paginated] includes author's Introduction,8 chapters,8pp historical facsimile monochrome+ colour illustration reproductions and 8pp similarly coloured contemporary illustration and b/w photographs in separate blocks,between pp64/65 and pp192/93 respectively,Further Reading,an Index,and Acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages - a dedication to latter listed.
Visually,the external appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's 17+ year-old age.It is only the minimal faults described that prevent a slightly higher grading.Despite that,it really is still an exemplary example for it's brightnesss, cleanliness and lack of other or age-acquired detracting faults commonly encountered in a book of its age.
The 'old,old,story' of love and sex has shaped people's lives for centuries.This intriguing book explores seven centuries of relationships outside and occasionally within marriage,from all levels of society and from the perspectives of both men and women.Drawing on divorce papers and secret diaries,reports of trials and private correspondence it uncovers people's real attitude to sexual transgressions from the rumbustious fourteenth century to the permissive society of the 1960's - and much swept under the carpet along the way.
For centuries,the vagaries of human passion have moved,amused or scandalized us.Autthor Val Horselr describes the pleasures and perils of shady liaisons through famous and infamous cases,personal anecdotes,novels and poems.She exposes dissolute aristocrats and their haunts, from Princes of Wales to Byron and Rochester,the Cleveland Street scandal to the pleasure gardens of Vauxhall,where seducers of both sexes stalked their prey.Yet she also portrays the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, driven to defy convention and the prevailing moral code.Here we find the stories of Margery Paston,banned from the house by her mother in 1469 for an alliance with the family's bailiff; of Elizabeth Armistead,glamorous courtesan turned political wife; of young men sent to govern the empire who took local wives and 'went native' in intoxicating foreign lands; of the runaway 'ladies of Llangollen' who escaped unwanted marriages and lived together, entertaining passing celebrities,for nearly 50 years.Real-life tales of scandal and adultery, wartime romances and elopements reveal the very real dangers of love that broke the rules - pregnancy,loss of marriageability,employment and a respectable future.Both a celebration of sexuality and a sobering vision of its consequences.'All for Love' offers fascinating insights into our ancestors' hidden desires.
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