DAVENPORT, John

Title Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction; With some Account of the Judicial "Congress" as Practised in France during the Seventeenth Century
Publisher London Privately Printed
Date 1869
Book ID 36528
First Edition  

Description

Small quarto, later (recent) plain cloth, morocco label to spine, xii+154pp., engraved frontis. and seven engraved plates bound in back, top-edge gilt. Used; Good "Written salaciously for a diverse contemporary audience." (Evans, 2014) Prepared for publication by John Camden Hotten but published after the author's death.
Price: £20.00