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Bibliotheca Arcana: seu Catalogus Librorum Penetralium, being brief notices of books that have been secretly printed, prohibited by law, seized, anathematised, burnt or Bowdlerised

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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]

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Copy No 298. Smokestaining to top edge of textblock and to dustwrapper, faint darkening to boards, contents Very Good
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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 298. Smokestaining to top edge of textblock and to dustwrapper, faint darkening to boards, contents Very Good.

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Wykeham Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
BIBLIO-01274
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 298. Smokestaining to top edge of textblock and to dustwrapper, faint darkening to boards, contents Very Good
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);

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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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