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Priapeia, or, The sportive epigrams of divers poets on Priapus now first completely done into English prose from the original Latin : with introduction, notes explanatory and illustrative and excursus: to which is appended the Latin text
- Preferred Title
- Priapea, sive, Diversorum poetarum in Priapum lusus. English ; Latin.
- Title
- Priapeia, or, The sportive epigrams of divers poets on Priapus now first completely done into English prose from the original Latin : with introduction, notes explanatory and illustrative and excursus: to which is appended the Latin text.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Athens [i.e. London] : Erotika Biblion Society, 1888 [i.e. 1889]
- Description
- xxxiv, 238 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Other contributors
- Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890. Smithers, Leonard C., 1863-1909.
- Series
- Bibliotheca Latina ; 1
- Notes
- Translation of: Priapea, sive, Diversorum poetarum in Priapum lusus. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers. Cf. Halkett and Laing, v. 4, p. 422. First complete edition in English. "Two hundred and fifty copies only (all on the same paper) of this volume have been printed ..."; KISR has copy no. 164. Place and date of publication from BM. Has erotic bookplate of Erny Carmen. Includes general index and index of first lines. Anthology. Poetry.
- References
- Reade, 3707. Mansell, NP0571602. BM, 1966-70, v. 20, col. 245.
- Kinsey subjects
- Phallus cults--Italy.
- Subject headings
- Italy.