Paperback
A Complete Guide to Forbidden Books
Paperback
A Complete Guide to Forbidden Books
A Complete Guide to Forbidden Books
by HENRY SPENCER ASHBEE
An encyclopedia of erotica, assembled by a Victorian bibliomaniac.
Born in 1834, Henry Spencer Ashbee was a wealthy London oil merchant who channelled his fortune into knowledge – a quest that led him to the forbidden erotica traded “under the counter” in Victorian gentlemen’s clubs. Behind the locked doors of his Bedford Square mansion he built a secret library of thousands – shared only with a trusted circle of collectors. Fussy, exhaustive, and deliciously verbose in true Victorian style, his notes on each item in this contraband collection are gathered in The Complete Guide to Forbidden Books.
Originally published in 1877, under the pseudonym ‘Pisanus Fraxi’, this erotic bibliography was housed in rather austere hardback form until the 1966 publication of the Brandon House Library Edition, turning a Victorian curiosity into a sixties pulp paperback.
Edition: Brandon House Library Edition, Paperback
Year: 1966
Condition: Good vintage condition
Notes: Front cover with some creasing and bookseller’s inked number, inkstamp on frontispiece.
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"To the bibliomaniac, the real lover of books for their own sake, these unknown and outcast volumes, these pariahs of literature, are infinitely more interesting than their better known and more universally cherished fellows; they acquire additional value for him in proportion to the persecution they have suffered, their scarcity and the difficulty he experiences in acquiring them.”
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