The Portal To The Cabinet Of Love; Consisting Of The Basia Of Johannes Secundus, Newly Translated Into English Verse, With the Epithalamium. Also Fragments. Being Some Poetical Pieces on the Kiss, &c by Secundus, Johannes - 1815

Weathersfield, VT: Isaac Eddy, 1815. 12mo. 150 x 95 mm. (6 x 3 ¾ inches). 98 pp. Contemporary binding with blue paper over boards. Some worming to spine. Tear and chip to paper on front cover with board visible. Majority of rear free endpaper missing. Binding sound. Text pages damp stained and toned, but text remains clear and unaffected.   An English translation of Latin poetry by Dutch poet Johannes Secundus (1511-1536). This Weatherfield edition, based on a version by John Knott published in 1775 in London, is a scarce copy of early erotica published in New England.    The publisher Isaac Eddy later engraved plates for American editions of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, otherwise known as Fanny Hill.     McCorison, Vermont Imprints, 1781.  Aldridge, A. Owen. "Verse Condoning of Clerical Concupiscence." The New England Quarterly 68, no. 3. 1995., pp. 451-57.  McCorison, Marcus A. "Printers and the Law: The Trials of Publishing Obscene Libel in Early America." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 104, no. 2010., pp. 181-217.