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The Erotic Book Trade
Abstract
By the end of the eighteenth century, London was awash with all sorts of printed matter, which could be bought from a wide variety of outlets. Part of this cache of reading material was highly erotic, including licentious novels, adventurous travelogues, rude prints, ribald songs and racy poems, and some pornographic. The most explicit material was subject to prosecution and therefore was purposely kept ‘hidden’. It had to be more carefully sold and was aimed at a specific audience.1
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Apparently this book retained its popularity - my Italian friend recalls her father kept a copy in his library in Rome in the
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Sir Roger was surveyor of the printing presses and licensor of the press; in other words, the man in charge of censorship. He is also attributed as translator of Letters from a Portuguese Nun
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John Pendred, The Earliest Directory of the Book Trade
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Also see his revision in Hacks & Dunces, Pope
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