Flagellation & the Flagellants. A HISTORY OF THE ROD in all countries from the earliest period to the present time.
With numerous illustrations. A new edition, revised and corrected. Pp. xii+544 frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 19 plates, title page vignette, pictorial headpiece, index; cr. 8vo; dark brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind, corners of boards a trifle rubbed, light bruise to top edge of upper board; top edges uncut, partly unopened; tiny split to fore-edge of frontispiece, a couple of spots of foxing and occasional faint soiling; William Reeves, London, n.d.[c.189-?]. *Rev. Wm. M. Cooper was a pseudonym of journalist and bookseller James Glass Bertram (1824-1892), who also wrote erotica under the name 'Margaret Anson'. Item #184323
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