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全作品が18世紀以来初の復刻。総合序文、各巻に序文、頭注、注釈を含む批評版。デジタル・ファクシミリによる高精度複製版。
Contents: Vol. 1: Pleasures, Comforts and Plagues of the early 18th Century/ Vol. 2: Edmund Curll and Grub-Street Highlights/ Vol. 3: The Geography and Natural History of Mid-18th Century Erotica/ Vol. 4: Wilkes and the Late 18th Century/ Vol. 5: Sex Doctors and Sex Crimes.
Full Description
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.
Contents
Part I Volume 1: Pleasures, Comforts and Plagues of the early eighteenth century Edward Ward, The Pleasures of a Single Life (1709); Anon, An Answer to The Pleasures of a Single Life (1701); Anon, The Ladies Choice: A Poem (1702); Anon, The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony (1706); Anon, The Batchelors and Maids Answer to The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony (c. 1706); Anon, The Fifteen Comforts of Whoring (1706); Anon, The Whores and Bawd's Answer to The Fifteen Comforts of Whoring (1706); Anon, The Fifteen Comforts of Cuckoldom (1706); Anon, The Fifteen Comforts of a Wanton Wife (1707); Anon, The Fifteen Plagues of a Maiden-head (1707); Anon, The Maids Vindication: or, The Fifteen Comforts of Living a Single Life (1707); Anon, The Fifteen Pleasures of a Virgin (1709); Edward Ward, The Insinuating Bawd: and the Repenting Harlot (c. 1701); Anon, The Constables Hue and Cry after Whores and Bawds (c. 1701); Anon, The London-Bawd: with her Character and Life (1705); Anon, A Full and True Account of a Dreadful Fire that Lately Broke Out in the Pope's Breeches (1713) Volume 2: Edmund Curll and Grub-Street highlights Giles Jacob, "A Treatise of Hermaphrodites" (1718); Jean Bonnefons, The Pleasures of Coition; or, The Nightly Sports of Venus: A Poem (1721); Anon, Venus in the Cloister: or, The Nun in her Smock (1725); Nicolas Chorier, A Dialogue Between a Married Lady and a Maid (1740); Anon, The Sappho-an. An Heroic Poem, of Three Cantos (1749) Volume 3: The geography and natural history of mid-eighteenth century erotica Anon, The Ladies Delight (1732); Thomas Stretzer, The Natural History of the Frutex Vulvaria, or Flowering Shrub (1732); Anon, Little Merlin's Cave. As it was Lately Discover'd, by a Gentleman's Gardener, in Maidenhead-Thicket (1737); Thomas Stretzer, A New Description of Merryland. Containing a Topographical, Geographical and Natural History of that Country, fourth edition (1741); Anon, A Short Description of the Roads which Lead to that Delightful Country Called Merryland (1742); Anon, The Potent Ally: or, Succours from Merryland (1741); Anon, Teague-root Display"d: Being Some Useful and Important Discoveries Tending to Illustrate the Doctrine of Electricity (1746); Anon, Wisdom Revealed; or, The Tree of Life Discover'd and Describ'd, a Tale (c. 1750); Anon, The Machine, or Love's Preservative (1744) Volume 4: Wilkes and the late eighteenth century John Wilkes, An Essay on Woman (1763); Anon, Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies (1773); Anon, The Only True and Exact Calendar of All the Ladies of Pleasure, which are to be Entered at these Races (c. 1775); Anon, The Temple of Prostitution: A Poem (1779); Anon, The Bawd: A Poem (c. 1782); Anon, The Whore: A Poem (c. 1782); Anon, Nunnery Amusements; or, The Amorous Adventures of a Monk and Nun (1786); The Bon-Ton Magazine, or, Microscope of Fashion and Folly, no.1 (1792) Volume 5: Sex Doctors and Sex Crimes Anon, An Apology for a Latin Verse in Commendation of Mr Marten's Gonosologium Novum (1709); Anon, The Man-Midwife Unmasqu[e]d (1738); Nathaniel St Andre, A Short Narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets (1727); Anon, The Discovery, or The Squire Turned Ferret (1727); William Hogarth, The Cunicularii (1727); Anon, The Trial of Lady Ann Foley (1778); Anon, The History of Colonel Francis Ch[a]rt[e]ris (1730); Anon, Modern Propensities; or, An Essay on the Art of Strangling (c. 1791); Anon, A Genuine Narrative of all the Street Robberies Committed since October Last, by James Dalton, and his Accomplices (1728); Anon, A Faithful Narrative of the Proceedings in a Late Affair Between the Rev. John Swinton, and Mr George Baker (1739); Henry Fielding, The Female Husband, or, The Surprising History of Mrs Mary, alias Mr George Hamilton (1746)