If there be nothing that will lay me in my Tomb till Love brings
me thither, I shall live to all eternity."

( Aphra Behn, Lycidas, or, the Lover in Fashion.)

Some years ago in an antiquarian bookseller's shop in the
heart of London was found a book which the Navarre Society
considered well worth publishing. This was The Ten Pleasures
of Marriage and the Second Part, the Confession of the New
Married Couple. On the title page appears the name A. Typogr Marsh
. It has not been possible to trace the identity of
A. Marsh, nor is the book included in the Stationers' Register
for the period, i.e., 1682-1683. It has been suggested that
Marsh may have thought the book too licentious for registration,
but this explanation does not seem probable in view of the
material which poured from the printing presses in Restoration
times, and more particularly since, in 1682, there was registered
a book of the same parent-stock as The Ten Pleasures, and at
least as loose in tone. It is thought that The Ten Pleasures of
Marriage was published abroad--probably, Hazlitt thinks, ¹ at
the Hague or Amsterdam. In the very first page of the original
edition there appears one of several hints of Batavian origin:
"younger" is printed "jounger." But the mystery of this book
is not confined merely to its printer. No authors name appears
on the title-page of The Ten Pleasures of Marriage. There is,
however, a clue as to its authorship: a Letter in the first part
is signed A.B., and in view of many facts which seem to support
the contention, the work (including both first and second Parts)

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