Sir Herbert Spencer Ashbee - Mijn geheime leven

Sir Herbert Spencer Ashbee - Mijn geheime leven - [Vianen] - Uitgeverij Areopagus - [c.1990] - 1st edition - 272 pp - Cloth binding with dust jacket - 15 x 22,5 cm. - Design: Julie Bergen.

Condition: Excellent.

Dutch translation of the first part of 'My Secret Life' (1888/1894); the memoirs of a wealthy English aristocrat 'Walter' full of sexual escapades. Hardback edition. Part of the series Erotische Klassieken uit de Wereldliteratuur.

¶ The original eleven-part work (total 4200 pages) is attributed to the collector Sir Herbert Spencer Ashbee (1834-1900); who compiled the standard work Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877) under the pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi; an authoritative bibliography of clandestine erotic books.