Curious Pleasures: A Gentleman's Collection of Beast - The Reverend Dr Erasmus St Jude Croom

Curious Pleasures: A Gentleman's Collection of Beast - The Reverend Dr Erasmus St Jude Croom

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Full bibliographic data for Curious Pleasures

Title

Curious Pleasures

Subtitle

A Gentleman's Collection of Beastliness

Authors and contributors

By (author) The Reverend Dr Erasmus St Jude Croom

Physical properties

Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 304
Width: 173 mm
Height: 223 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight: 511 g

Audience

General/trade

Language

English

ISBN

ISBN 13: 9781905264131
ISBN 10: 1905264135

Classifications

BISAC category code:LCO000000
Dewey:828
Nielsen BookScan Product Class:T13.0
BICMainSubject:WHX
BISAC category code:HEA042000
BISAC category code:HUM008000
LCification:PN
Dewey:306.70207
BISAC category code:HUM007000

Edition

Illustrated

Edition statement

Illustrated

Illustrations note

b/w line drawings throughout

Publisher

Ebury Press

Imprint name

Virgin Books

Publication date

09 March 2010

Publication City/Country

London/GB

Biographical note

No clergyman with those precise initials has ever been traced, and the exact identity of the author, or authors, remains a mystery. The tone of the work suggest a man of the cloth with a scientific bent, but it might equally well have been the creation of some enterprising Victorian pornographer keen to extract monies from erudite men and university libraries. What is certain is that he knew his subject. The actual author is the scholar, wine expert and author Peter Freeman, who specialises in historical and literary pastiches - particularly Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens - and is an expert on sexuality in the Victorian period. Joe Shepherd is an experienced illustrator of humour and adult comics.

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Main description

It has been rumored that the finest libraries in Victorian England kept this tome under lock and key, permitting access only to doctors and professors. Scotland yard had a copy in its reference library, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself may have been allowed access to this work. and there are some  who claim that this encyclopaedic treasure of erotic pleasures— still shocking today—would cause any woman who gazed upon it to faint. Rumor or truth? Does it matter? This ironic, tongue-in-cheek look at the naughty sexual practices of Victorian England is at once hilarious and titillating, and as explicit as ever, and includes illustrations in the style of the time. With a design that leaves some wondering whether it isn’t indeed straight out of the 1890s, Curious Pleasures is as deliciously decadent as it once might have been.