THE HORN BOOK; A Girl's Guide to the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
No. Hollywood: Brandon House, 1967. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very Good.
Item #37608
160pp. A translation was first published by Charles Carrington at Paris in 1898.A reprint of an English translation of an erotic French work that was
first published at Paris by Charles Carrington in 1898. The translator
may have been John Stephen Farmer. The French original, reproduced from a calligraphic manuscript, was published at Bruxelles in
‘1860’ [i.e. 1870] by J.-P. Blanche in an edition of just fifty copies.
The similarities between the production of the original French edition
of this work and of l’Ecole des biches (see no. 2026, above) leads one
to surmise that Instruction libertine may have been a sort of erotic
round-robin written by Edmund Duponchel, Frederick Hankey &
Alfred Bégis. An alternative authorship suggestion, put forward by the
bibliographer and publisher Jules Gay in the 1860’s, was that the book
was written by a lawyer named Benoit who died in 1863. Description courtesy Pat Kearney. From the library of Patrick J. Kearney. 2039.
Price: $75.00