Erotika Biblion Society Explained

The Erotika Biblion Society General of London and New York was a pornographic publishing imprint in Victorian London formed by Harry Sidney Nichols and Leonard Smithers in 1888.

They formed their name from the nonfiction treatise of the same name, Erotika Biblion (1783), published in Paris before the French Revolution, under the penmanship of the Comte de Mirabeau.^[1] One of their most notable publications was Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal, thought to have been written by Oscar Wilde. The venture ended in 1907, after the death of Smithers.^[2]

Publications

• VOISENON, [Claude-Henri de Fusée] Abbé de. Fairy Tales. Translated by R. B. Douglas. Illustrated With and Etched Frontispiece by Will Rothenstein. Athens [London] 1895.

See also

• List of pornographic book publishers

References

• James G. Nelson, Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, or in England & Europe Rivendale Press
• Patrick J. Kearney, A history of erotic literature, Macmillan, 1982,, pp. 151–153
• Jon R. Godsall, The Tangled Web: A Life of Sir Richard Burton, Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2008,, p. 398
• John Sutherland, The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction, Stanford University Press, 1990,, p. 591.

Notes and References

1. Book: Mirabeau , Honoré . Erotika Biblion. Chez tous les Libraries . Chevalier de Pierrugues. 1998.
2. Nelson (2000) p.203