Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1800-1930: A Bibliographical Study

ISBN-13: 9780859679190 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 504 str.

Peter Mendes

Opis

This work provides bibliographical descriptions of all printings of erotic fiction issued clandestinely during the period 1800-1930. By "clandestine" the author means books whose publishers and printers attempt to hide their identies, usually by offering title pages whose misleading places and dates of publication may shock and amuse, but which always aim to mystify. Using internal and external evidence, an attempt is made to establish who were the printers, booksellers and publishers, English and Continental, involved in this trade. The printing families or "groups" into which a large percentage of the material falls are classified, accompanied by illustrations which identify the main printing characteristics ("house styles") of the groups. Bibliographical descriptions follow a checklist of clandestine catalogues - these provide important evidence for dating, pricing and sales "sales pitch" and information on items of which no copies can now be traced. The work concludes with a series of appendices which provide significant external evidence, and three indexes: of themes, titles and names. Peter Mendes' research builds on and extends the pioneering work of the Victorian collector and bibliographer H.S. Ashbee, "Pisanus Fraxi".

Recenzje

’This bibliography is impressive in its breaking of new ground’ Antiquarian Book Monthly ’Mr Mendes is to be congratulated and thanked for the substantial success of his researches’ The Private Library ’This bibliography has been well researched...and has benefitted from access to substantial private collections.’ Times Literary Supplement ’...Dr Mendes’s book...gives to the study of this subject in England its first extensive bibliographical underpinning’ The Book Collector, Vol 43 no 3 ’a work of outstanding scholarship’ Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada

Spis treści

Introduction; List of abbreviations; Short-title list of sources used; Part I: Notes on Publishers and Printers: 1. London 1873-1910 (with a backward look to 1800); 2. Amsterdam and Rotterdam 1887-1912 (with a retrospective look at the Brussels trade 1870-1887); 3. Paris c.1889-1930; Part II: The Bibliographical Record of Clandestine Erotic Publications in English 1800-c.1930: 4. How the bibliography works: A. Organizational and descriptive plan; B. List of printing groups, with illustrative figures; 5. Checklist of clandestine catalogues 1885-c.1930; 6. Bibliography of clandestine erotic fiction in English 1885-c.1930; Addenda; 7. Bibliographical checklist of clandestine erotic pamphlets in English c.1880-c.1912; 8A Notes on printers and publisher/booksellers 1800-c.1884; 8B A supplementary short-title checklist of clandestine erotic fiction in English 1800-1884; Part III: Appendices; Index of themes, titles, publishers, printers and authors

O autorze

Peter Mendes