1st Edition
Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, Part I vol 3
Edited By Patrick Spedding
Copyright 2003
382 Pages
by
Routledge
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.
Acknowledgements, Introduction, The Ladies Delight (1732), The Natural History of the Frutex Vulvaria, or Flowering Shrub (1732), Wisdom Revealed; or, The Tree of Life Discover’d and Describ’d (1732), Little Merlin’s Cave (1737), A New Description of Merryland (1741, for 1740), A Short Description of the Roads which Lead to that Delightful Country Called Merryland (1741), The Machine: or Love’s Preservative (1744?), Teague-Root Display’d: Being some useful and Important Discoveries Tending to Illustrate the Doctrine of Electricity (1746), Notes to the Texts
Biography
Patrick Spedding
