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Les Sérails de Londres, ou, Les amusements nocturnes : scènes des sérails, portraits des courtisanes, aventures des libertins
- Preferred Title
- Nocturnal revels, or, The history of Kings-place and other modern nunneries. French.
- Title
- Les Sérails de Londres, ou, Les amusements nocturnes : scènes des sérails, portraits des courtisanes, aventures des libertins / publiés avec une introduction par le bibliophile Pol André.
- Format
- Book
- Translated title
- The seraglios of London
- Published
- Paris : Albin Michel, 1928 printing (Paris : Imprimerie Ramlot & Cie)
- Description
- 379 p., [16] leaves of plates : 1 facsim., 15 ill. ; 21 cm.
- Other contributors
- André, Pol, 1882-1914.
- Other title
- Amusements nocturnes
- Notes
- Fictitious prose narrative. The introduction attributes authorship to a member of the mock order of Saint Francis of the "Priory of Medmenham," a society of English libertines. Translation of: Nocturnal revels, or, The history of Kings-place and other modern nunneries. Includes facsimile of t.p. of original edition, Paris, 1801. Includes historical introduction. Includes bibliographical introduction. Inserted typescript summary of introduction, in English. Original wrappers bound in.
- References
- Mansell, NS0420049.
- Kinsey subjects
- Anticlericalism--18th century. Social conditions--England--18th century. Prostitution--Female--England--18th century.
- Subject headings
- England.
- Genre heading
- Fiction.