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Library illustrative of social progress : from the original editions collected by the late Henry Thomas Buckle ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR1309.F5 L5 1870z v.3-6
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR1309.F5 L5 1870z v.1 v.2 v.3-6
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Flagellation--Fiction.
- Flagellation.
- English literature--18th century.
- English literature.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 7 volumes ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for G. Peacock, [between 1870 and 1879?]
- Contents:
- (from t.p.) no. 1. Exhibition of female flagellants. 1777
- no. 2. Part the second of the Exhibition of female flagellants. 1785
- no. 3. Lady Bumtickler's revels. [n.d.]
- no. 4. The use of flogging in venereal affairs, by Henry Meibomius. 1761
- no. 5. Madame Birchini's dance. The ninth edition. [n.d.]
- no. 6. Sublime of flagellation, in letters from Lady Termagant Flaybum ... [n.d.]
- no. 7. Fashionable lectures, composed and delivered with birch discipline ... [n.d.]
- Notes:
- H.T. Buckle, a famous man of letters, accumulated some 22,000 books in his library. It is very doubtful if he had any connection with this work. Cf. Dict. nat. biog.; A.H. Huth: Life and writings of H.T. Buckle.
- Each vol. typographically reprints an 18th-century work, with t.p. and presumably fictitious imprint.
- Title from half-title.
- Date of publication from paper watermarked with fleur-de-lys, name of J. Whatman, and date of 1871.
- Local Notes:
- Cop. 1 imperfect: no. 7 wanting; cop.2 imperfect: v. 1-2, 7 wanting.
- OCLC:
- 6111431
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