EVELINE: Amorous Exploits Of A Lady Of Fashion. Volumes 1 + 2. Brandon House Library Edition.
North Hollywood: Brandon House, 1968. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good.
Item #96337
207 + 144pp. A pre-Victorian erotic novel, complete and unexpurgated. The history of this work is complicated. Henry Spencer Ashbee notes an edition in two small volumes of 105 and 85 pages respectively, which he says “appeared about 1840, but is not the original, which was, I believe, entitled Evalina.” He then notes two later editions, dated c. 1843 and c. 1860, the first published by Anthony Dyer and the latter by the notorious William Dugdale. (See: Ashbee, Catena Librorum Tacendorum, pp. 142-4.) In 1904 there appeared at Paris from the erotica publisher Charles Carrington a novel called The Modern Eveline in three volumes. According to the Preface, this is a sort of expanded adaptation of the earlier work, created by one of the publisher’s hacks from his memory of the original which he read many years earlier. It seems probable that it is from this 1904 edition that the Brandon edition was reprinted. Description courtesy of Pat Kearney. 3027 / 3030.
Price: $75.00