Henry Spencer Ashbee

Centuria librorum absconditorum, notes, by Pisanus Fraxi

including Utica and Carthage, the Punic Wars, the Roman occupation, the Arab conquest, the expeditions of Louis IX., and Charles V. and the French protectorate

A Bibliography of Tunisia from the earliest times to the end of 1888 (in 2 parts)

Being Notes Bio- Biblio- Icono-graphical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books

Index Librorum Prohibitorum

Robert Proctor

Gilbert Richard Redgrave

A Paper Read Before the Bibliographical Society November 20, 1893

Erhard Ratdolt and His Work at Venice

In this first volume of the 1877 work that established him as England's leading authority on pornography, Henry Spencer Ashbee describes scores of "curious, uncommon and erotic books" that were banned or otherwise prohibited from legitimate sale during the Victorian era... and some even until the 1960s. Included in this far-reaching volume are such "gentlemen only" titles as Exhibition of Female Flagellants, The Battles of Venus, and A Cabinet of Amorous Curiosities. This catalog of mostly forgotten works is an invaluable-and highly entertaining-resource for bibliophiles, students of erotica, and collectors of Victoriana. British book collector, travel writer, and bibliographer HENRY SPENCER ASHBEE (1834-1900), aka Pisanus Fraxi, is thought by some to have authored the notorious Victorian sexual memoir My Secret Life.

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