The compiler's first commercially published book, the catalogue of the Private Case which ironically finds itself in bondage with the books it lists.
One of the new additions to the Private Case
A Listing of Additions
to the Private Case Erotica Collection
of the British Library
Introductory Note
In September 2004, the British Library rolled out a major upgrade of its online catalogue. Like everything else, it's not perfect. There is, for instance, no way to sort a group of selected records by shelfmark. But in fairness, since this is a function of interest to perhaps half a dozen people in the world, they shouldn't be criticised too much for the omission.
However, other than little personal gripes of that sort the new online catalogue is an enormous improvement over its predecesor, particularly since it now allows for shelfmark searches and the ability to download search results to ones home pc.
The following list represents a first pass, using the new facilities, at locating books in the Private Case that did not appear in my 1981 catalogue of the collection published at London by Jay Landesman. In mitigation, the majority of the books on the list were added after the catalogue went to press – P.C. 32 for example is a shelf that didn't open for business until 1989. However, a few of the others, such as the 'Hank Janson' novel at P.C.21.aa.9, I must have overlooked, for which I offer belated apologies and the hope that what follows rectifies the situation. As I investigate further, I'm sure new title will come to light, and they will be added to the list of fugitive entries below.
PC.15.d.19. - Pornografi / (Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1974.)
PC.15.l.15. - Institut fur Sexualforschung in Wien (VIENNA) Bilder-Lexikon. [Edited by Leo Schidrowitz.] vol. 1-4. (Wien, Leipzig, [1930, 1931.])
PC.19.a.43. - Submission. Fully illustrated. Plus ... a special unexpurgated collection of bizarre and unusual drawings by Taco. Strictly limited edition. (New York: Raven Publishing Co., [1958].)
PC.21.aa.9. - JANSON, Hank, Auctioned. (pp. 127. New Fiction Press: [London, 1952.])
P.C.23.b.1. - D. T. de Bienville. Nymphomania, or, a Dissertation concerning the furor uterinus … Translated by Edward Sloane Wilmot. (London: J. Bew, 1775.) 8vo. pp. 189, 16.
PC.24.a.36. - APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume, Debauched hospodar and Memoirs of a young rakehell ... Translated from the French. (Second printing.) [The introduction signed: David B. Lewis.] (Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1969.)
PC.24.a.37. - ANDREA DE NERCIAT, Andre Robert. [Le Diable au corps, etc. ] The Devil in the flesh. (English translation and introduction by Howard Nelson.) (Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1970.)
PC.24.a.38. - ROBINSON, Julian, The confessions of Georgina ... Introduction by Geoffrey Lowndes. (North Hollywood: Brandon House, [1968].)
PC.24.a.39. - How to raise love; or, Modern studies in the science of stroking. The horn book, a girls guide to the knowledge of good and evil. ([Paris?:] printed for the Erotica Biblion Society of London and New York, 1899.)
PC.24.a.40. - MELTZER, David. The martyr. (North Hollywood, Cal.: Essex House, [1969].)
PC.24.a.41. - GERVAISE DE LATOUCHE, Jacques Charles. Dom B., the lascivious monk ... Translation and introduction by Howard Nelson. With selections from Juliette by Marquis de Sade. (Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1970.)
PC.24.a.42. - The Lustful Turk; or, Lascivious scenes in a harem. Faithfully and vividly depicted in a series of letters from a young and beautiful English lady to her cousin in England. [Introduction by H. Montgomery Hyde.] ([New York?:] Canyon Books; distributed by Grove Press, [1967].)
PC.24.a.43. - CLELAND, John, Memoirs of F**** H***. [By John Cleland.] (London: G. Fenton, 1779.)
PC.25.a.93. - DU PRAT. [Venus dans le cloitre.] Venus in the cloister: or, The nun in her smock. Translated from the French by a person of honour [i.e. Robert Samber?]. [The dedication signed: L'Abbe du Prat. Variously attributed to Jean Barrin or Francois de Chavigny de la Bretonniere.] (London: [Edmund Curll], 1725.)
PC.25.a.94. - Genuine and remarkable amours of the celebrated author, Peter Aretin, The. ([London?], printed in the year M,DCC,LXCVI [not before 1799].)
PC.25.b.25. - REAGE, Pauline, Histoire d'O. Avec une preface de Jean Paulhan. (Sceaux: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1954.)
PC.30.k.33. - BARTH, Caspar von. Incogniti scriptoris nova poemata. Nieuwe Nederduytsche gedichten en raedtselen. [The compilers preface signed: C. W. B. L., i.e. Caspar Werner Baertius. With the riddles, mainly derived from Giovanni Francesco Straparolas Le notti piacevoli, by Joannes Neander and with contributions by Joannes de Neeff and Jean de Lalaing. The plates attributed to Crispin de Passe the Elder and his school and to Gillis van Scheyndel.] Introduction Jochen Becker. (Transl. by Gary Schwartz.). (Soest: Davaco Publishers, 1972.)
PC.30.k.34. - BARTH, Caspar von. Incogniti scriptoris nova poemata, ante hac numquam edita. Nieuwe Nederduytsche ghedichten ende raedtselen. [The compilers preface signed: G. W. B. L., in error for C. W. B. L., i.e. Caspar Werner Baertius. With the riddles, mainly derived from Giovanni Francesco Straparolas Le notti piacevoli, by Joannes Neander and with contributions by Joannes de Neeff and Jean de Lalaing.] Hier is noch by ghevoecht het Loff van dronc[kend]rincken. [Signed: H. R.] (Lugdun. Batav, 1634.)
PC.30.k.35 - [BELOT. Adolphe.] L'education d'une demi-vierge. Par lauteur de "La passion de Gilberte". (Paris: Bruxelles: [s.n.], 1903.) [The online catalogue gives the pressmark for this volume as P.C. 30.k.34, presumably in error.]
PC.30.k.36. - SADE, Donatien Alphonse Francois de, [La nouvelle Justine ] Histoire de Juliette ... illustree de soixante gravures, etc. (6 tom. En Hollande, 1797 [c. 1900]). Pt. 2 of "La nouvelle Justine". The imprint is false. Imperfect; wanting 3 plates.
PC.30.l.16. - Dart (New York) Dart. (New York, N.Y. : Target Studios, [1974]-)
PC.30.l.17. - Javelin. (New York, N.Y. : Target Studios, [1977?]-)
PC.30.l.18 - REAGE, Pauline. The story of O / (New York : Grove Press, 1978.)
PC.30.l.19. - KEARNEY, Patrick J. The Private Case: an annotated bibliography of the Private Case erotica collection in the British (Museum) Library. (London : Landesman, 1981.)
PC.30.l.20 - Histoire d'O no.2. (Paris : Pierre Belfond, 1988.)
PC.31.d.45. - La legende joyeuse, ou Les trois cent trois lecons de Lampsaque ... Nouvelle edition. (Londres: Pinne, 1760). The imprint is false; printed in France.
PC.31.d.46. - LENGEL, Frances. The carnal days of Helen Seferis. (Paris: Atlantic Library, published by the Olympia Press, [1954].)
PC.31.m.2. - [A collection of photographs of the nude. ([ca.1950].)
PC.31.m.3. - FARREL, Joseph. Parfums de souffrance = Painful flavours / (Paris : Editions Dominique Leroy, 1978.)
PC.31.m.4. - PICHARD, Georges. Marie-Gabrielle de Saint-Eutrope / (Grenoble : Editions Jacques Glenat, 1978.)
PC.31.m.5. - Les sources du plaisir. Album viril. (London: [s.n.], [184?]. [12] leaves of plates; 42cm.)
PC.31.m.6. - Grand theatre des petites passions de societe. ([Paris?]: [s.n.], [183?]. [72] leaves of plates; 34cm.)
PC.32.a.1. - DES VIGNONS, Max. - Plaisirs troublants. (Paris : Librairie Artistique et Edition Parisienne reunies, [ca.1934])
PC.32.a.2. - ICY, Jacques d'. Paulette trahie. (Paris : Collection des Orties blanches, [ca.1926])
PC.32.a.3. - ICY, Jacques d'. Brassee de faits. (Paris : Collection des Orties blanches, [1926])
PC.32.a.4. - DEUX ORPHELINES; Les.. ([Paris?] : [s.n.], [ca.1960])
PC.32.a.5. - MEMOIRES DE MISS COOTE. Exploits d'une fouetteuse britannique racontes par elle-meme. (Paris : Bibliotheque des deux hemispheres, [19--])
PC.32.a.6. - FURRYA, Sophia. - Les geoles de dentelles. (Paris : Collection des Orties blanches, [19--])
PC.32.a.7. - DRIALYS. - Les belles flagellantes de New-York. (Paris : Charles Carrington, 1907.)
PC.32.a.8. - HERVEZ, Jean. La Regence galante. (Paris : Bibliotheque des curieux, 1909.)
PC.32.a.9. - FLOGGER, A. W. [Flogger papers. French ] Poker de dames. (Paris, 1929.)
PC.32.a.10. - IBELS, Andre. La bourgeoise pervertie : roman psycho-physiologique. [Edition privee.] (Villemomble : L'Auteur, 1930.)
PC.32.a.11. - APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume. - Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan. (Londres [i.e. Amsterdam?], 1949.)
PC.32.a.12. - ANSON, Margaret. - [The Merry Order of St. Bridget, personal recollections of the use of the rod.] [[Another edition.]] (York [London?]: printed for the author's friends, 1857 [1890?].)
PC.32.a.13. - [EXHIBITION OF FEMALE FLAGELLANTS in the Modest and Incontinent World, etc.] [[Another edition.] Exhibition of female flagellants in the modest and innocent world, etc.] (London: printed for G. Peacock, 1777-85, [i.e. 1900?])
PC.32.a.14. - FLAYBUM, Termagant. - [Sublime of Flagellation: in letters from Lady Termagant Flaybum ... to Lady Harriet Tickletail, etc.] [[Another edition.]] (London: printed for George Peacock, [1900?].)
PC.32.a.15. - AMATORY ADVENTURES of Tilly Touchitt, The. (London : Printed for the Editor, [ca-1886] at Moss Down Villas, late Crescent Place.)
