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[ARMSTRONG (JOHN)]: The Oeconomy of Love. A Poetical Essay. The Third Edition.
London: Printed for T. Cooper..., 1739. 8vo (in 4), pp. [ii], 43 [44 blank], disbound; lacks half-title, several leaves damp-stained, severely on pages 19, 31, and 43. First published in 1736, Armstrong's poem was one of the more interesting pieces of poetic erotica in the 18th century, though Armstrong (1708 - 1779) excluded it from his collected Miscellanies in 1772. In 1768, Armstrong published a "revised and corrected" edition, which was shorter and left out some of the more lubricious and amusing lines. This printing retains its classic exposition of a "wet dream": "The Boy may wrestle, when/ Night-working Fancy steals him to the Arms/ Of Nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the Rage/ Of the soft Tumult, every turgid Cell/ Spontaneous disembogues its lucid Store,/ Bland and of azure Tinct." Foxon A306.
Offered for GBP 165.00 = appr. US$ 269.94 by: John Price Antiquarian Books - Book number: 6196
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