The Fifteen Joys Of Marriage

Curiosa 1947. With etched illustrations. At the expense of a bibliophile and his friends. Anonymous. Illustrator Jean Traynier Text circa 1450. With casing. 30 cm x 21 cm, thickness 4.6 cm. Good condition. N ° 76 in a strictly limited edition of 150 copies printed on large Lana vellum à la forme. This book is one of 45 numbered copies from 56 to 100. 146 pages, in sheets, mute green cover, mute casing with decorations of a sober heart stylized in red. 12 colored etchings in the three quarter page text, plus a full page frontispiece inset and multiple illustrations in woodcuts, addition at the end of the book of seven leaves in red of the breakdown of typographic patterns. Les Quinze Joies de mariage is a French satirical text in prose published anonymously in the mid-15th century, which presents a picture of marital quarrels and deceptions: misogynistic satire alongside an analysis of the blindness of spouses placed in daily and concrete situations .