2136 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.
Volume 1 Pleasures, Comforts and Plagues of the Early Eighteenth Century, Volume 2 Edmund Curll and Grub-Street Highlights, Volume 3 The Geography and Natural History of Mid-Eighteenth-Century Erotica, Volume 4 Wilkes and the Late Eighteenth Century, Volume 5 Sex Doctors and Sex Crimes
Biography
Alexander Pettit; Patrick Spedding
