A History of Erotic Literature Kearney, – Kearney, Patrick J.

Description

Used A very good tight copy embossed cover lettering in gold. First edition 1982
Includes color and black and white illustrations and an index. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges are clean.
Origins in the early 16th century to the most relaxed atmosphere of the present day, erotic literature has had a checkered and colourfull history, delighting and intriguing collector and bibliophile almost as its reader. For over four centuries erotic works have been clandestinely printed published anonymously and acquired for the secrete libraries of wealthy collectors.

A history of Erotic Literature is a new fully illustrated account of clandestine erotica which makes public for the first time of of the rarest erotic in the world, including the title pages and illustrations from English, French and German classics that have been hidden away in private collections