Erotika Biblion Society

The Erotika Biblion Society was a pornographic publishing imprint in Victorian London formed by Harry Sidney Nichols and Leonard Smithers in 1888. They formed their name from the 1783 nonfiction treatise of the same name 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]

The Autobiography of a Flea, Edward Avery, Republication by The Erotika Biblion Society in 1901

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

References
  1. Mirabeau, Honoré (1867). Erotika Biblion. Chevalier de Pierrugues. Chez tous les Libraries.
  2. Nelson (2000) p.203
  • James G. Nelson, Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-271-01974-3 or in England & Europe Rivendale Press ISBN 0-953503-38-0
  • Patrick J. Kearney, A history of erotic literature, Macmillan, 1982, ISBN 0-333-34126-0, pp. 151–153
  • Jon R. Godsall, The Tangled Web: A Life of Sir Richard Burton, Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2008, ISBN 1-906510-42-3, p. 398
  • John Sutherland, The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction, Stanford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-8047-1842-3, p. 591.


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