Search Results: Erotica from Leaf and Stone Books

London: Pickering & Chatto - Routledge. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 1851967427 . Xxxi, 373; xviii, 456; xvi, 366; xviii, 361; xix, 474 pages. Notes, Indexes. Octavo. Handsome dark blue set in dark blue cloth with red coth label with gilt to spine. Very minor wear inside and out, 1 small nick at the bottom edge of Vol. 1. Heavy for international shipping. This set reprints many of the 18th century's most notorious works, including eight from "The Fifteen Plagues of a Maiden-Head" (1707) , that resulted in highly publicized court battles and in some cases helped shape laws on censorship that survived into modernity. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 2136 pages .

London: Pickering & Chatto - Routledge. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 1851967702 . Xxvii, 523; xiv, 343; xviii, 396; xviii, 415; xxiii, 424 page. Index in last volumes, notes. Occasional b/w illustrations. Octavo. Handsome dark red cloth with navy/gilt spine title. Very minor wear, clean and tight, very nice copies. Heavy for international shipping. Comprises a variety of topics, from prostitution to flatulence, and paints a picture of the real and imaginative worlds inhabited by the people of eighteenth-century Britain. This title features a volume dedicated to homosexuality. It is intended for students of eighteenth century culture, queer theory, history of sexuality and book history. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 2072 pages .

Blackburn, Lancastershire: Screeches. Good. 1965. First Edition; Second Printing. Softcover. [38] pp. Stapled white card covers with erotic illustrations by Moyse. Staples have some rust, front cover has old price sticker mark, interior clean and unmarked but appears to have been stored somewhere a bit damp -- some edge curl and light rippling as a result and first couple of pages have very faint humidity stain at top corner. Otherwise good. Counter culture erotic anthology, quite scarce. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 38 pages .

La Haie (Paris): Lejay and Merigot. Good with no dust jacket. 1776. Full-Leather. vi, 290, 316 pp and 244, 200 pp. A very scarce edition - not in OCLC - with 250 numbered letters, plus the "Derniere Lettre" The printing attribution is "Imprime a la Haie. Et se trouve a Paris, Lejay, Libraire, & Marigot jeune. MDCCLXXVI" Very likely a pirated copy printed after the first edition. In full contemporary and likely original calf with gilt ruling to the boards, 5 raised bands with floriation in the compartments, orange morocco labels with the title and black morocco with the volume numbers. Boards are smooth, some rubbing at the corners and joints, spine top on Vol. I is pulled, spine cover starting to lift a bit on Vol. II but still attractive and holding together. Interiors have original marbled end papers, minimal foxing and aging, bit of minor darkening at the gutter from printer materials, first blank of 2nd volume has a very small hole, otherwise clean and… Read More

Cosmopoli (Venice or Genoa): S.N.. Good with no dust jacket. 1789. First Edition. Hardcover. [ii], 312, [i] (errors); 312, 312, 312 pp. With a letter from a dealer or collector dated 1851 saying the book was printed by the Duke of Pembroke. 3/4 dark red leather with pretty gilt to spines, red glazed cloth boards, corners and extremities a little rubbed, interior has blue marbled endpapers, title pages are lighter stock and a bit browned, cut short. Frontis portrait of Baffo. Paper is heavier stock and minimally foxed. Bindings are sturdy. Erotic sonnects, madrigals and songs written in a "pure Venetian dialect" by Baffo, who greatly enjoyed writing them but didn't want them published during his lifetime -- although he enjoyed his friends' plaudits when he circulated the poems among them! Apollinaire called it "plus grand poète Priapique qui ait jamais existé et en même temps l'un des poètes le plus lyriques du XVIIIe siècle.… Read More

Paris?: Palais Sous Les Robes. Good. 1882. Hardcover. x, 188 pp. Signed Champs-Stroobants binding, 3/4 brown cloth with striking brown/orange marbled boards, some light rubbing and minor wear, morocco label a bit aged, front board very slightly forward. The blanks are of heavier stock than the rest of the book. Title and half have some light foxing, very occasional thumbing, but otherwise clean and good. Wide margins. The famous extremely popular pornographic novel, a best seller in 18th century France, dealing with the debauching of a virgin by a priest and her subsequent descent into sexual licentiousness. Quite racy! This is a very scarce Palais Sous Les Robes edition (a small, sometime publisher whose other major work was an edition of The Education of Laura, also in 1882). Not in Worldcat and no other copies of this edition to be found anywhere. An unusual addition to any erotic collection. Lovely binding.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 188 pages .

London: Pickering & Chatto - Routledge. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 1851968067 . Xxvi, 400; 332, [1], 427; 460 pages. Octavo. Illustrated throughout in b/w. Handsome dark red cloth with green title labels with gilt to the spine. Very minimal signs of use, slight dark mark on spine of Vol. 2, otherwise fresh and nice.. This is the first 4 volumes of the series (the second 4 - Part 2 -- were issued a year later) . Collection of selected texts focused on eighteenth-century sexuality and prostitution. The texts include autobiographies and biographies of courtesans, directories of whores, erotic poems dedicated to harlots, jocular descriptions of prostitutes and jest books on strumpets. The collection provides a useful resource for the study of sexuality, gender, women's studies and the literature and history of the eighteenth century. Heavy for international shipping. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1665 pages .