GENTLEMEN'S RELISH; Or The Buyer's Guide to Young Ladies.
New York: Award Books, 1968. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good.
Item #51614
125 pp. + ads. A collection of the best from 18th and 19th-century English magazines devoted to erotica, including The Exquisite and Bon Ton. Scandalous poems and limericks, advertisements for bawdy houses, erotic anecdotes, and lengthy article that cover everything from a trial for sodomy to descriptions of the choicest ladies of pleasure in the backstreets of London. Bu these periodicals - long burried in the archives of the British Museum - are not merely black fantasies of sexuality. Their authors had an ear and an eye for the streets, the people, the smells, the sounds of a particlular era in Britain taht is unmatched in vividness of description and sharp touch of reality. A396N.
Price: $15.00