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BOILEAU (JACQUES)]
A Just and Seasonable Reprehension of Naked Breats and Shoulders. Written by a Grave and Learned Papist... with a Preface by Mr. Richard Baxter

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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[BOILEAU (JACQUES)]

A Just and Seasonable Reprehension of Naked Breasts and Shoulders. Written by a Grave and Learned Papist... with a Preface by Mr. Richard Baxter, first edition in English, translated by Edward Cooke, book labels of James Barratt, Lym Hall and Charles J. Bewlay, Carleton Hall, early calf, rebacked [Wing B3463A], 8vo, Jonathan Edwin, 1678

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A tirade "against naked arms, shoulders, and necks, and the indecency of maids and womens apparel". In the preface Richard Baxter further attacks women for "their monstrous superfluity of cloth or silk that much drag after them... their inordinate pride and laced gaudiness... and especially the monstrous periwigs of men, with somewhat like them now also used by women".

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