Bibliotheca Arcana: seu Catalogus Librorum Penetralium, being brief notices of books that have been secretly printed, prohibited by law, seized, anathematised, burnt or Bowdlerised
by Speculator Morum [pseud W.L.Clowes]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Copy No. 324. An ex-library copy with a white ink callnumber an dgilt library device on the spine, library bookplate on the fron
- Seller
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LONDON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Piscean Press/Charles Skilton, London, 1971 reprint of 1885 first edition. Limited edition of 700 numbered copies. Quarter cloth and boards, small 4to,. xxii, 142, xxv pp. 630 entries. A bibliography principally dealing with erotica but including some other material. Deakin (in Catalogi Librorum Eroticorum) notes that while the bibliographic information is not full, some of the notes contain interesting information on authorship etc. Copy No. 324. An ex-library copy with a white ink callnumber an dgilt library device on the spine, library bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper (overstamped withdrawn), stamps on the title-page and verso of the title-page and on the final text page, otherwise Near Fine.
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- Seller
- Wykeham Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-18463
- Title
- Bibliotheca Arcana: seu Catalogus Librorum Penetralium, being brief notices of books that have been secretly printed, prohibited by law, seized, anathematised, burnt or Bowdlerised
- Author
- Speculator Morum [pseud W.L.Clowes]
- Format/Binding
- Quarter cloth and boards, small 4to,
- Book Condition
- Used - Copy No. 324. An ex-library copy with a white ink callnumber an dgilt library device on the spine, library bookplate on the fron
- Edition
- Limited edition of 700 numbered copies
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Piscean Press/Charles Skilton, London, 1971 reprint of 1885 first edition
- Date Published
- 1971 reprint of 1885 first edit
- Pages
- xxii, 142, xxv pp
- Keywords
- Erotic literature erotica prohibited pornographic books pornography sex sexology censorship curiosa W.L.Clowes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sex & Erotica (Bibliographies);
Terms of Sale
Wykeham Books
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About the Seller
Wykeham Books
Biblio member since 2005
LONDON, Aberdeen
About Wykeham Books
We specialize chiefly in "books about books", the emphasis being on historical aspects of book collecting, production and distribution. A particular speciality is in bibliographies, of all subjects of interest to collectors, dealers and scholars, with several thousand bibliography titles in stock. Other strengths include extensive holdings of auction catalogues for book sales and a good selction of reference material on and facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts. We also have a special interest in rare material by or about Rudyard Kipling.
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