Registrum Librorum Eroticorum
( Erotica ) READE, pseud., Rolf F., [[Alfred, ROSE], ]
Compiled by Rolf F. Reade. [Preface by T.O.I.]
200 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Published: Privately Printed for Subscribers, 1936
Stock code: 39086
Price: £435.00
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, on hand-made paper, INTERLEAVED THROUGHOUT WITH BLANKS, free endpapers very slightly browned; original black buckram, backs with black leather labels framed and lettered in gilt, gilt tops, uncut, boards very lightly age-marked else a near fine copy.
EDITION LIMITED TO 200 HAND-NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 136). Prior to Kearney this is the most comprehensive bibliography of erotic literature ever attempted, listing more than 5,000 separate works and including, importantly, those in the holdings of the British Library and the Vatican.