Married Love - A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties Stopes, Dr. Marie

Seventh edition. 189 pages + 2 of ads. Inscribed by Stopes to the front endpaper: "To my only Treasure Tiger, from the author [??]mer 26 July 1919". The recipient was Humphrey Verdon Roe, Marie Stopes' second husband, who played a crucial role in her career as a sexologist and birth control campaigner, and also assisted with the initial financing of Married Love in 1918. The inscription is a muted and a poignant one, dated only 10 days after Stopes lost her first child, who died during the twilight sleep birth. The seventh edition ("Revised and Enlarged") marks the shift from the smaller publishing firm of Fifield to Putnam's to cope with the demand for copies. As well as several of the chapters being quite significantly expanded it also includes a new additional Preface by Stopes. The book is firmly bound in clean dark russet coloured cloth lettered in tarnished gilt to the spine, with simple decoration in gilt and blind, the extremities are slightly bumped and rubbed. The text block is slightly toned, foxed and dusty, with many of the pages uncut. The dust jacket is the original, it is slightly marked and rubbed with a little toning to the spine, also small chips and short closed tears to the edges. A remarkable copy, commemorating both a tragic event in Marie Stopes' life which would go on to influence her views on birthing methods, as well as the change of publisher which marked a significant increase in the momentum of her and Humphry's campaign for birth control, with sales of both Married Love and Wise Parenthood beginning to increase exponentially. With excellent provenance, from the estate of Harry Verdon Stopes-Roe (Marie Stopes' son) and his wife, Mary Stopes-Roe (née Wallis, whose father was the engineer and scientist, Sir Barnes Neville Wallis).