A Complete Guide To Forbidden Books

Work by one of the leading collectors of erotica in the world, Henry Spencer Ashbee, remains the principal guidebook to the realm of curious and uncommon literature... the subterranean world of forbidden books! Culled from his own collection—which consisted of over 20,000 volumes! —and from the libraries of friends, Ashbee carefully selected the most important examples of these works and painstakingly described them, complete with copious quotations, for the historians and scholars unfortunate enough never to have access to these rare treasures. At long last this first paperback edition makes available to the adult reading public the very best of Ashbee's classic omnibus of literary curiosa—IN ONE LARGE VOLUME!

A TREASURY OF LITERARY CURIOSA