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Discourse on the Worship of Priapus: And its Connection With the Mystic Theology of the Ancients. (A New Edition). To Which is Added an Essay on the Worship of the enerative Powers During the Middle Ages of Western Europe.
by KNIGHT, Richard Payne
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London: Privately Printed, 1865. and its Connection With the Mystic Theology of the Ancients. (A New Edition). To Which is Added an Essay on the Worship of the enerative Powers During the Middle Ages of Western Europe. London: Privately Printed, 1865.
Limited to 500 numbered copies, this being number 226. Quarto (8 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 213 x 174 mm). [4], xvi, [1]-254, [4, blank] pp. With forty engraved plates, two of those being double-page.
Quarter green morocco over green cloth. Gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Spine a bit rubbed. Very good.
HBS 64694.
$750.
Limited to 500 numbered copies, this being number 226. Quarto (8 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 213 x 174 mm). [4], xvi, [1]-254, [4, blank] pp. With forty engraved plates, two of those being double-page.
Quarter green morocco over green cloth. Gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Spine a bit rubbed. Very good.
HBS 64694.
$750.
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- Bookseller
- Heritage Book Shop, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64694
- Title
- Discourse on the Worship of Priapus
- Author
- KNIGHT, Richard Payne
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Privately Printed
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1865
- Keywords
- Erotica|Curiosa
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