Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1800–1930

Peter Mendes is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich.

• Introduction; List of abbreviations; Short-title list of sources used; Part I: Notes on Publishers and Printers: 1. London 1873-1910 (with a backward look to 1800); 2. Amsterdam and Rotterdam 1887-1912 (with a retrospective look at the Brussels trade 1870-1887); 3. Paris c.1889-1930; Part II: The Bibliographical Record of Clandestine Erotic Publications in English 1800-c.1930: 4. How the bibliography works: A. Organizational and descriptive plan; B. List of printing groups, with illustrative figures; 5. Checklist of clandestine catalogues 1885-c.1930; 6. Bibliography of clandestine erotic fiction in English 1885-c.1930; Addenda; 7. Bibliographical checklist of clandestine erotic pamphlets in English c.1880-c.1912; 8A Notes on printers and publisher/booksellers 1800-c.1884; 8B A supplementary short-title checklist of clandestine erotic fiction in English 1800-1884; Part III: Appendices; Index of themes, titles, publishers, printers and authors

’This bibliography is impressive in its breaking of new ground’ Antiquarian Book Monthly ’Mr Mendes is to be congratulated and thanked for the substantial success of his researches’ The Private Library ’This bibliography has been well researched...and has benefitted from access to substantial private collections.’ Times Literary Supplement ’...Dr Mendes’s book...gives to the study of this subject in England its first extensive bibliographical underpinning’ The Book Collector, Vol 43 no 3 ’a work of outstanding scholarship’ Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada