Homosexuality. Terminal Essay to "The Thousand and One Nights"
London: Privately Published, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #49587
4to, pp. 57, [1], xxi (notes). Bound in half vellum over olive paper boards, spine lettered in gilt; original blue printed wrappers retained. Light wear to boards, spine somewhat darkened. Bookplate of H. [G.] Plimmer; ink ownership inscription of Hubert G. Norman [?] to the blank preceding the wrappers. Clean throughout and a good copy overall. A rare privately printed issue of Richard Francis Burton's controversial essay on "pederasty," originally issued as a supplement to his translation of the Arabian Nights. As noted in the editor's foreword, it was intended to be read alongside the essay A Problem in Greek Ethics by John Addington Symonds. Produced for private circulation among scholars and students of early sexual psychology, limited to 50 copies, this being no. 46.
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