Victorian Anonymous (5 results)

12mo Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Printing. 315p. Text is unmarked on bright pages. Wraps are glossy with gently bumped corners and faint edge wear. Binding is tight, spine remains uncreased.

Paper. Condition: Very Good +. First Thus. The title story is 49 pages long. It is accompanied by : `The Charm', `Ladies Whipping Club', `The Schoolmaster's Dinner', and fifteen other short pieces all with an erotic tone. You'' find : Tom Thoughtless, Miss Smart, Slococks, and Miss Nox. in these offerings. Cond :Paper wrapper is ivory coloured with yellow-orange lettering. Loews photo on front is of a modern day Venus provocatively tugging at her pearls. Binding tight. No crease, no tears. Clean. Minimal wear. Collectible ! ! Quote (p.41): " ._._. during the performance. I was in that voluptuous state, when I heard my lover walk up. As soon as he saw me he smothered me with kisses and, without losing a moment, extended me ._._._. .". Anthony Loew (cover) (illustrator).…

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Folio, 11 pp. On the rectos of eleven leaves of Britannia paper watermarked 'W H FELLOWS | 1841'. Held together with string. Text clear and complete. In ink, with deletions and emendations in pencil. Good, on aged paper. Docketed on reverse of last leaf. The subject of the poem is the execution of Conradine in the market square in Naples, 29 October 1268. The first section (3 pp) begins 'Italia fair Italia unto thee, | Was beauty given twice with misery, | At once the loveliest and the loveliest clime, | Thou wert the seat of Empire, and of crime; [.]'. An alternative to the last line has been written in, and deleted: 'Thy charms were only equalled by thy crime'. The second section (4 pp, originally titled 'The Morning immediately before the Execution') begins At that sweet hour when twilight into day, | Dips her dark wing, and mistlike fades away, [.]'. It contains another poem (deleted by the author), entitled 'Good Bye & Farewell', beginning 'The thrilling whisper of "Good Bye", | Thou not unmix'd with pain, | Seems to anticipate the joy, | Of meeting once again.' The third section (4 pp) begins 'Close to the castle walls, and just beneath, | A solemn scaffold rear'd its form of death, | While close around a dense and bristling mass, | Of soldiers, occupied the meanest place; [.]'. The author is not named. It may be a coincidence, but a review of M. E. Jeffreys 'Hoel the Hostage and other Poems' in the Metropolitan Magazine for June 1842 mentions that the volume contains a poem by this title, one of a number of historical narratives, 'replete with animation and descriptive spirit'.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This classic Victorian erotic novel is a worthy addition to ones collection. It explores and pushes the nineteenth-century sexual boundaries whilst entertaining readers. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…