One of six books by the prolific 'Hank Janson' [Stephen Daniel Frances] that were prosecuted in the early 1950's. Copies sent to the British Library for copyright registration ended up in the SS collection.

The SS [Suppressed Safe]
Collection of the
British Library

Introductory Note

Whilst compiling The Private Case (London: Landesman,1981), the catalogue of the erotica collection of the British Library, I didn´t interest myself too much in the SS collection. The only serious attempt to examine its contents and history that I am aware of was undertaken by Peter Fryer in the final chapter of his book Private Case, Public Scandal (London: Secker & Warburg, 1966). From this it is clear that erotic or pornographic content was not in itself a pre-requisite for a book's admission to the collection. Although indignation at what I perceived to be official censorship was the driving force behind my interest in the books preserved in the Private Case, it would be less than candid of me to deny the attraction of their erotic content, so the repertoire of libels, plagiarisms and annual credit indices discussed by Fryer didn't strike me as too appealing.

Nevertheless, shortly after starting work on the Private Case supplement I remembered the presence in the original volume of several entries that had originally been in the SS and were later transferred, in particular some half-dozen lurid novels by the pseudonymous 'Hank Janson' which had been prosecuted in the 1950s and found obscene. Why these had not simply gone straight into the Private Case, as had the similarly prosecuted Mayflower paperback edition of Cleland´s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure about twelve years later, I was unable to imagine, but the possibility of similar books remaining in the SS piqued my curiosity. Accordingly, and being suitably vague as to my reasons, I made arrangements to see a senior official at the Library.

At the appointed hour, I presented myself at the Front Desk of the North Library and was escorted by a research assistant through a labyrinth of book-lined passages to a small, cluttered office. The interview was brief, courteous and to the point. The existence of the SS collection was admitted, it contained no specifically erotic books and since the contents of the collection were denied to the Readers, so was its catalogue. This last was a shade less emphatic, and when I pressed the point on the availability of the catalogue I was invited to write to the Principal Keeper, but the suggestion was couched in a tone hinting so strongly of futility that I was deterred from taking it up.

This took place about 1980, since when I have relocated to the United States. The difficulties this move imposed on the completion of the Private Case supplement may be imagined, but at least PC and ex-PC titles are today included in the published volumes of the General Catalogue which are available in the bigger research libraries in Northern California. The SS, on the other hand, remains as enigmatic as ever; the evident determination of the BL to maintain its secrecy, coupled with my geographical isolation from the collection, drove any ideas I might have had of further investigation firmly into the background.

In the summer of 1991, however, I was pleasantly surprised when G. Legman, with whom I have been in contact for a good many years, generously forwarded to me a photocopy of the SS catalogue as it had existed in 1945 when he received it from H. Thomas, Keeper, Department of Printed Books.

As it stands, this document poses more questions than it answers. The two most obvious puzzles were succinctly laid out in a note added to the final page by G. Legman, reproduced below, in which he queried the word 'Extracts' preceding the first entry, and in view of the small number of titles in the collection, the extraordinarily high numbering of some of the pressmarks. As to the significance of 'Extracts,' I am unable to come to any conclusions, any more than I can with the name of the collection of itself, which has been variously interpreted as an acronym for 'Secret Shelf' or 'State Secret'. [But see 'Introductory Note to the Second Edition,' below.]

Having some experience with British Library cataloguing methods, though, the problem with the pressmarks is more easily explained. The British Library as a policy seem not to use pressmarks more than once. If for some reason a book is moved from one location to another its pressmark is changed to meet the requirements of its new home, but the original pressmark is not used again. Thus, if a book in the Private Case at, say, P.C. 24. a. 32 is deemed more suitable for a less restricted location, it is given a new pressmark and reshelved. The catalogue entries are amended and, where appropriate, cross references added to the 4th copy cards. P.C. 24. a. 32 is not used again for another book. New books may be added to that shelf in the collection, but the pressmarks allocated to them are merely the next highest number available. This seems to me to be a sound policy; most obviously it avoids the dangers of pressmark duplication which is a boon for researchers working with anything but the most up-to-date reference materials.

The highest numbered pressmark in the 1945 catalogue below is SS. A. 426, for Parables from Stamps (1939) by T. C. Innes. (I am assuming that 'SS. [B?] 993' for Sheila Cousins' To Beg I am Ashamed is a typographical error.) It is difficult to imagine a single shelf containing that many books, even if they happened to be slim volumes of verse. The reason for this high pressmark seems to be that since the creation of the SS there has probably been a total of 426 volumes on that particular shelf, but not at the same time. This in turn suggests the contents are reviewed on a fairly regular basis, and that the turnover rate is high. I suspect books no longer seen as suffering from whatever condition it was that relegated them there in the first place are quickly removed elsewhere. Indeed, it may be that the 100 or so titles here is a fairly average population figure for the collection at any one time, and I would hazard a guess that shelf SS. A. has a higher number today for its last occupant than it did in 1945.

It is of course possible that 'Extracts' means precisely that, and the collection is really as extensive as the pressmarks would lead us to believe. However, the quality of the cataloguing implies otherwise. The holdings of the Private Case, for all the secrecy at one time surrounding them, were always treated by the cataloguers with as much care as any other class of books. Even at a time when the '4th copy cards' were hand-written on slips of thick cartridge paper in beautiful copper-plate, the books were carefully described, with full attention given to date and place of publication, pagination and any other relevant information. The cataloguing of the books in the SS by contrast is casual in the extreme, barely qualifying even as a "Handlist", and certainly not reflecting the high standards one is accustomed to find at the British Library.

I imagine the reason for this reflects the temporary nature of the collection, or rather the transient place of the books in it. As will be seen from the list, many of the titles locked away in 1945 are now to be found elsewhere in the Library, and represented in the General Catalogue. It is true, however, that without actually examining them–earlier pressmarks are invariably left in books if they are moved–it is impossible to know whether they are the same copies which have been re-shelved, new copies acquired later which somehow slipped undetected through whatever security net exists at the Library for matters of this sort, or simply re-issues put out by the publisher with cancel leaves replacing the offending originals.

Some educated guesses may be made. Any of the titles I indicate in the course of my notes accompanying the 1945 catalogue as having a 'Cup' pressmark were probably reprieved from the SS; as will have been seen above, many of the re-locations from the Private Case took the same route. 'Cup,' an abbreviation of 'Cupboard' I believe, represents a lower level of sensitivenessthan the PC. Within the 'Cup' classification there are further sub-levels, the intricacies of which I don't pretend to understand, but despite their reduced level of security most, if not all, must still be read in the more intimate confines of the North Library, where a closer eye can be kept on the customers.

The Fortune Press edition of Apuleius, at number 3 in the list, which was locked away because its design plagiarized that of the Nonesuch Press edition of the same work, is a case in point. The anonymous Autobiography of a Child (1921) is another, but here the waters are muddied somewhat by the fact that the General Catalogue lists two copies, each with 'Cup' pressmarks, both of which are sequential. The SS catalogue indicates only one copy, so we must assume the other was acquired later. Which is actually the ex-SS copy can only be determined by examination of both. A similar confusion exists with The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence. However, it may readily be assumed that in these latter cases at least one of the copies spent some time in the SS.

Many titles, though, are today in the General Catalogue with pressmarks that appear entirely unrelated to any of the 'secured' collections or categories, and are difficult to spot as parolees from the SS. The Harp of Life (1900), for example, by Jesse Bedford but published under the pseudonym 'Elizabeth Godfrey,' is shelved at X909/19094, a location I believe to be reserved for novels, and which, as a class of pressmark, is of fairly recent origin. It is impossible even to guess from the pressmark alone whether this copy of Bedford's novel is the one suppressed in 1900 for libel, or one acquired some time later. Enoch A. Bennett's Arnold Bennett´s Letters to his Nephew (1935) is described in the SS list as having a Preface by Frank Swinnerton. The General Catalogue entry for the same work omits this information, and has the pressmark 010920. b. 40.

Autobiography of a Child, The Rainbow and the Apuleius are additionally favoured in that one is able to learn easily enough why they were relegated to the SS. The circumstances prompting the suppression of the first two have been well documented by Alec Craig and other writers concerning themselves with the censorship of literature, whilst we are lucky to have Timothy d´Arch Smith´s valuable history and bibliography of R. E. Caton´s Fortune Press to help us with the latter. Similarly, the works of such celebrated authors as Robert Graves and Thomas Hardy are well represented in bibliographical and biographical materials, where research into problems involving suppressions and related difficulties has already, with convenience, been completed. But in most instances, the books in the SS are not by well known writers nor were they the subject of celebrated legal actions, and it is difficult to know why they are there. One might suspect, correctly as it happens, that The Rossiad by Alfred Douglas is a verse satire directed at Robert Ross, one of the few people with the courage and common decency to support Oscar Wilde after his trial and imprisonment. And some numbers of Time magazine, and an issue of the Cambridge periodical Granta, from the early 1930´s might not be unrelated to either the Duke of Windsor's relationship with Wallace Simpson or else his apparent interest in the strengthening fascist movements of Germany and Italy.

But what of an oddity like Parables from Stamps for Young and Old (1939)? Its author, Thomas Christie Innes, would seem from this and the handful of his other General Catalogue entries to have been of a strongly religious disposition; it´s difficult to imagine how a book treating of postage stamps and the religious messages to be derived from them could be anything but agreeably eccentric.

Many of the hundred or so books or periodicals in this list present similar mystifications. On the strength of its title and coy authorship, A Peep Behind our Cousins (New York 1888, repr. 1900) by 'A Maid of Honour' would seem to be a sort of Victorian equivalent of the royal exposé that is still so beloved by readers of The Sun and similar rags. However, as the only copy in captivity outside the S.S. would appear to be in the library of Columbia University and too fragile to Xerox, it will have to be left up to another researcher to find out what titillated our Victorian ancestors about The Empress Brown.

This list is expanded from the original as kindly given me by Mr. G. Legman. Where possible, I have filled out the entries with names of publishers, paginations and similar sub-bibliographical trappings, and have also attempted to find what it was that caused these books to have become literary pariahs. A number of letters were written to the publishers of suppressed books, in cases where they were still in business, to ascertain if their records contained any information concerning these matters. One replied in the negative,yet another referred me to their archivist, from whom my letter was returned marked 'Not Known,' and the remainder went unanswered.

An expanded edition of this little catalogue would be useful; I am willing to prepare it should further material be forthcoming.

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Since the above lines were written, two important events have taken place. The most important is undoubtedly the availability of the British Library Catalogue on the World Wide Web, particularly from May 1997 when readers were able to access this indispensable research tool gratis. The service has a number of shortcomings; for example, it is not presently possible to make searches based on pressmarks, although one can do so at the Library itself. But overall it is a rare boon for researchers not able to conveniently visit Bloomsbury in person.

The second major event was the publication of The Library of the British Museum (London: The British Library, 1991). Under the editorship of P. R. Harris, this fascinating volume is a collection of detailed essays on all aspects the Library, and includes what is certainly the first officially sanctioned account of the history and contents of the Private Case. This essay, by Paul James Cross, is a mine of useful information, which amongst other things reveals that the "S.S." acronym stands for 'Suppressed Safe' Books fitting this description were originally sealed up and kept in the Keeper's cupboard, but when the S.S. pressmark was devised early in the twentieth century they were moved to the Ante-Room basement where they were stored in seven safes until 1976-77 at which time they were moved yet again to a 'secure area' in the bookstacks. I am very much indebted to Mr. Timothy d'Arch Smith for securing a copy of this invaluable book for me at short notice.

Using the on-line British Library services, I have been able to greatly expand the information included in the original Scissors and Paste pamphlet that was published in 1992. Many details, such as paginations, imprints and so forth, have been added, and I have also found it possible to include many new pressmarks. But as I wrote in the Introduction to the original edition, I am unable to know for certain whether these pressmarks belong to S.S. books that have been de-suppressed, or to copies of the same books acquired at a later date.

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List of suppressed and other books (other than those in private cases) not in general catalogue: including books which have been the subject of English litigation, mutilated books, various official documents and letters, &c.

Extracts

At Colindale [Newspaper Library]

DAY AND NIGHT. A weekly journal of news, romance and amusement.. Nos. 1 to 36, 12 August 1871 to 13 April 1872. SS. -?-.

DAYS' DOINGS, The: An illustrated and amusing record of passing events.. Vol. 1, no. 1. SS. -?-.

– no.1-82, 30 July 1870 - 17 Feb.1872. Continued as: Here and there [New series.] no.1-44 = 24 Feb. - 21/28 Dec.1872.

POLICE GAZETTE. – Withdrawn by Order of the Trustees.

THE TIMES. Jan 23 1882. P.C. 24. a. 16.

- Noted in Rose/Reade 4547, as "Remarkable on account of the indecent interpolation in the speech of the Home Secretary Sir W. V. Harcourt at Burton-on-Trent. See the 4th column of page 7, the 53rd line from the bottom." Ashbee Catena, lv, who notes that an apology appeared in the issue for January 27th immediately after the leaders. A similar interpolation in the issue of June 12, 1882, page 8, col. 2, in an advertisement for a book, Everyday Life in our Public Schools. See Rose/Reade 4582.

At Bloomsbury [or, now, St. Pancras]

ADAM. (Hargrave Lee). – Woman and Crime. [With illustrations.] London: T. Werner Laurie [1914]. In-8°. pp. ix. 306.

– That this title was suppressed is a guess, cf. Peter Fryer, Private Case, Public Scandal, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1966, pp. 151.) The original SS pressmark, if there was one, is unkown to me, but a copy of what Fryer describes as a 'modified form' of the book is presently shelved at 6056.tt.18. Hargrave Le Adam was an early twentieth centuy crimer reporter who wrote extensively on Scotland Yard, the C.I.D., Jack the Ripper and similar topics.

ADAMIC, (Louis). – Dinner at the White House (1946).

– Suppressed for libelling Winston Churchill by alleging he had faced bankruptcy in 1912. cf. Peter Fryer, Private Case, Public Scandal, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1966, pp. 152.) The original American edition of Dinner at the White House was published in 1946 at New York by Harper and Brothers. A presentation copy from the author to Max Adle was advertised on the Internet in May 2005 in which the author had inserted a typed card stating that "the footnote on pages 151-2 has been withdrawn, L.A." It seems reasonable to assume that it was this footnote that causes the problem. The book is presumably still in the SS since no copy appears in the General Catalogue.

APULEIUS, (Lucius). – Cupid and Psyches. The Excellent Narration of Their Marriage. Translated by William Adlington out ofthe Latine Bookes of the Golden Asse. London: The Fortune Press, 1927. In-8°. pp. [60]. SS. B. 72.

– "Withdrawn by the publisher." "700 copies on handmade paper of which 100 were bound in vellum, but 600 were surrendered to the Nonesuch Press to avoid a law-suit owing to its slavish imitation of that press´s edition." Timothy d´Arch Smith, R. A. Caton and the Fortune Press (London: Bertram Rota, 1983), p. 38. There is a copy–no. 16 of 100 on vellum–in the British Library copy at Cup. 510. aa. 1.

ARMSTRONG, (Frank). – Geometrical Problems. Pittsburgh, 1937. SS. B. 86.

– There is no copy of a book with this title by Mr. Armstrong in either the British Library or the Library of Congress. However, a book entitled Higher Plane Curves by Frank Armstrong is listed in the General Catalogue at pressmark 8532.f.40. Like Geometrical Problems, it was published at Pittsburgh in the 1930's. The Library of Congress lists a work by John H. Hirt called A Treatise on Geometrical Problems, It was published at Minneapolis in 1937.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CHILD. Written from the Psycho-sexual-analytical Standpoint, &c. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., [1921]. In-8°. pp, xv.389. SS. A. 78.

– "Subject to prosecution; Copies destroyed." Two copies are in the General Catalogue, at pressmarks: Cup. 1001. c. 6. and Cup. 1001. c. 7. According to an internet site this book was written by Cyril Scott (1879-1970), the English composer, writer, and poet. Scott was married to Rose Laure Allatini, herself the author of suppressed book called Despised and Rejected (1918) published under the pseudonym A. T. Fitzroy, q.v.

BARTON, (Frederick Page.). – Concentrated Contract. Containing original articles by Col. Beasley… Jack Dalton… Sir Guy Domville… Edward Mayer, &c. pp. 118.: London: Joiner & Steele, 1933. In-8°. pp. 118. SS. A. 391.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue, at pressmark: 7920.de.20. Mr. Barton was apparently the inventor of a bidding system in the game of Bridge, and the author of a number of books on the game. He also wrote a volume of memoirs, We’ll Go no More A-Roving (London: Joiner & Steele, 1937).

[BEDFORD, (Jesse).] – The Harp of Life [by] Elizabeth Godfrey [pseud.]. London: Grant Richards, 1900. in-8°. pp. 336. SS. A. 59.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: X909/19094.

BEECHER, (Henry Ward). – The Beecher-Tilton Scandal: a complete history of the case… With Mrs. Woodhull´s statement, &c. New York: F. W. Bancker, 1874. In-8°. pp. 146. SS. B. 23.

– In the highly publicized scandal known as the Beecher-Tilton Affair, Henry Ward Beecher, a prominent, theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman, was tried on charges that he had committed adultery with a friend's wife, Elizabeth Tilton. In 1870, Elizabeth had confessed to her husband, Theodore Tilton, that she had had a relationship with Henry Ward Beecher. Tilton was then fired from his job at a newspaper because of his editor's fears of adverse publicity. Theodore and Henry both pressured Elizabeth to recant her story, which she did, in writing, but subsequently retracted her recantation. The charges became public when Theodore Tilton told Elizabeth Cady Stanton that his wife, Elizabeth, had confessed to a "free love" relationship with Henry Ward Beecher. Stanton repeated the story to Victoria Woodhull and Isabella Beecher Hooker.

Victoria became angry, as Henry Ward Beecher had publicly denounced her advocacy of free love. She published a story in her paper, Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly, on November 2, 1872, claiming that America's most renowned clergyman was secretly practicing the free-love doctrines which he denounced from the pulpit. The story created a national sensation. As a result, Victoria was arrested in New York City and imprisoned for sending obscene material through the mail. The Plymouth Church held a board of inquiry and exonerated Beecher, but excommunicated Mr. Tilton in 1873.

Tilton then sued Beecher: the trial began in January 1875, and ended in July when the jurors deliberated for six days but were unable to reach a verdict. His wife loyally supported him throughout the ordeal.

A second board of enquiry was held at Plymouth Church and this body also exonerated Beecher. Two years later, Elizabeth Tilton once again confessed to the affair and the church excommunicated her. Despite this Beecher continued to be a popular national figure. However, the debacle split his family. While most of his siblings supported him, one of his sisters, the nationally known women's rights leader Isabella Beecher Hooker, openly supported one of his accusers. There is a copy of this book in the General Catalogue at pressmark: Cup. 403. t. 2.

BEECHER, (William Constantine.) & SCOVILLE, (Samuel), the Elder. – A Biography of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher… assisted by Mrs Henry W. Beecher. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co, 1888. In-8°. pp. 713. SS. B. 22.

– "Withdrawn by order of the Trustees." There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: Cup. 403. t. 4.

BENNETT, (Enoch Arnold). – Arnold Bennet´s Letters to his Nephew (Richard Bennett), 1921-1931. [Edited by R. Bennett. With a portrait.] With a Preface by Frank Swinnerton. London: William Heinemann, 1935. In-8°. pp. xix.329. SS. A. 418.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: 010920. b. 40; however, the entry contains no mention of a Preface by Frank Swinnerton.

BENNETT, (Dorothy Cheston). – Arnold Bennett. A Portrait Done at Home. Together with 170 letters from Arnold Bennett. [With facsimiles.] London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. In-8°. pp. 350. SS. A. 408.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: 010822. df. 4.

BERNARD, (Oliver Percy). – Cock Sparrow. A True Chronicle. [Autobiographical reminiscences.] London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. In-8°. pp. 384. SS. A. 417.

– Oliver Percy Bernard and Dora Hodges (1896-1950), an opear singer, were the parents of the well-known journalist and alcoholic Jeffrey Bernard (1932-1997). There is a copy of Cock Sparrow in the General Catalogue at pressmark: 010822. df. 44.

BISHOP, (Cecil). – From Information Received. Reminiscences of Cecil Bishop. [With plates, incl. portraits.] London: Hutchinson, 1922. In-8°. pp. 286. SS. A. 386.

BLYTH, (James) (1864-1933). – The Tyranny. London, 1907. 8vo. (Copy recalled by publisher. See letter [in book?]) SS. A. 58.

– The British Library General Catalogue lists some 60 titles by this author, none of which are titled The Tyranny. There is, however, a copy in the Bodleian Library (Oxford), Nuneham Repository, at shelfmark 254399 e.120 and another at the National Library of Scotland, General Reading Room (George IV Bridge); stored offsite U.48.c ; Reference use in NLS.

BOWLES, (Mamie). – Charlotte Leyland. London: Grant Richards, 1900. In-8°. pp. 418.

– "…withdrawn from circulation by its publisher…; the trustees ordered that it be 'removed from the Library shelves and kept under lock and key in the Department,'" cf. Peter Fryer, Private Case, Public Scandal, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1966, pp. 151.) The original SS pressmark is unkown to me, but a copy is presently shelved at YA.1990.a.19372.

BURNS, (Robert). – A Suppressed Ballad by Robert Burns (Why should na Poor People mow?). [With a Foreword by Clement Shorter.] Clement Shorter [London, 1916]. In-4°. SS. B. 15(1).

– One of twenty-five copies printed for private circulation. There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: Cup. 500. n. 10. "The song is Poor Bodies do naething but m-w, p. 80 in the original ed. [of The Merry Muses of Caledonia] of c. 1800, here printed from the holograph MS. by Burns, with his letter of transmission to Cleghorn, 12 Dec. 1792." – The Merry Muses of Caledonia, edited by G. Legman (New Hyde Park, New York: University Books, 1965, p. 293.

CARSWELL, (Catherine Roxburgh). – The Savage Pilgrimage. A narrative of D.H. Lawrence. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. In-8°. pp. [xiv].296. SS. -?-.

– The Chatto and Windus edition of this work was withdrawn following complaints by Middleton Murry who objected to what was said about him in it. Carswell´s book was written to refute his own book Son of Woman, which included some unfavorable evaluations of Lawrence's character, particularly that he was the victim of an Oedipal Complex and incapable of a healthy sexual relationship. Needless to say, Frieda Lawrence took exception to this; she burned a copy, and sent Murry the ashes. (I am obliged to Prof. Gertzman of Mansfield University, Pennsylvania, for information regarding this work.) A "revised edition" published at London later the same year by Martin Secker is in the General Catalogue at pressmark: 010827. ff. 53. The original edition is presumably still in the SS.

CHILD STUDY. Vol. IX, no. 7, Nov. 1936 [1916?] (Ac 2262b). (Withdrawn from circulation C.O. 2049, 1916). SS. B. 33(17).

CONNELL. (Vivian). – September in Quinze. London: Hutchinson, 1952. in-8°. pp. 304.

– Suppressed during Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe's anti-vice crusade, cf. Peter Fryer, Private Case, Public Scandal, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1966, pp. 147.) Fryer notes that both the English and American first editions were suppressed, and that the pressmarks were respectively S.S. Cup. 9.c.13 and S.S. Cup. 9.c.14. However, the online BL catalogue lists only the English edition, the pressmark of which is now Cup.1000.aa.18.

CORKRAN, (Alice) (1852-1916). – Miniatures. (1903).

– Suppressed for breach of copyright. cf. Peter Fryer, Private Case, Public Scandal, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1966, pp. 152,3.) Presumably still in the SS since no copy appears in the General Catalogue.

COUSINS, (Sheila). pseud. – To Beg I Am Ashamed. London: George Routledge, 1938. in-8°. pp. 283. SS. [B?] 993.

– Written by Ronald Matthews, with the discreet assistance of Graham Greene. Hostile reactions to review copies by the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror and the Spectator led to the Public Morality Council to complain to the Director of Public Prosecutions. The publishers were leaned on by the police, and in consequence the book was withdrawn. It was reprinted in 1954 without any problems. There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: Cup. 802. ee. 8.

(CONFESSIONS.) The Indiscreet Confessions of a Nice Girl. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1935. in-8°. pp. 276. SS. A. 416.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at Cup.805.de.13. According to the catalogue entry for the copy in the Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru [National Library of Wales], this book seems to have been originally published about 1934 at New York by "W. Goodwin, Inc." This may be a misprint for W. Godwin, Inc., a firm founded in New York in 1931 by Samuel Curl and Alex Hillman, some of whose publications enraged the Catholic Church. I am indebted to Professor Jay Gertzman for this information. A reprint, done in 1951 at Stoke-on-Trent by the Harborough Publishing Company, is in the General Catalogue at Cup. 367. b. 23. It is in-8° and has pp. 126. Other copies of the 1935 edition are preserved at Oxford, Cambridge, Trinity College, Dublin, and the National Library of Scotland.

CRAWFORD, (Arthur Travers) (1835-1911). – The Broken Pledge. A brief summary of facts and arguments. [London:] A. Bonner, [ca. 1890]. ff. 21, 3, 5. 42 cm. SS. C. 11.

– The S.S. catalogue gives 1892 as the date of publication. A copy of this work is currently shelved at Cup.1259.e.11. I am unable to say whether it is the same copy that was originally in the S.S. or a different copy acquired later. A. T. Crawford has a number of works listed in the General Catalogue; their subject matter seems all related to India or British colonial dealings with India.

CRAWFORD, (Donald). – Notes on Crawford v. Crawford, Queen´s Proctor Intervening. [A defense of Sir Charles Dilke.] Cinderford, Gloucestershire: J. Cooksey, [1891] In-8°. pp. 121. SS. A. 63.

– The S.S. catalogue gives the date as '[1886?].' The General Catalogue has two issues, both with the same date, at the following pressmarks: 1609/6250 and 1609/1551.

CRAWFORD and (v.) CRAWFORD. – Evidence taken on the hearing. London [1886?] SS. A. 63(1).

DAWSON, (Richard), M.D.– An Essay on Spermatorrhœa and Urinary Deposits, with observations on the nature, causes, and treatments of the various disorders of the generative system… The Fourth Edition. London: Hugh Hughes, 1848. In-12°. pp. xv. 150. SS. A. 64.

– "A quack book." The British Library has at least three editions of this work in the General Catalogue. The one in the SS in 1945 was dated 1848, and I have assumed that it was the fourth edition, as described above, which has as its present pressmark 1173. h. 9. The dates certainly coincide. The two other editions are the third, published in 1847, which is pressmarked 1173. h. 10 and the fifth, dated 1851, at 7641. bb. 31.

DENNIS. (Geoffrey). – Coronation commentary. London: Heinemann, 1937. In-8° pp. 337.

– Anti-semitic, but of course suppressed for libelling the Duke of Windsor. cf. Peter Fryer, Private Case, Public Scandal, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1966, pp. 152). The original pressmark is unknown to me, but there is a copy in the General Catalogue at YC.1988.a.14192

DOUGLAS, (Alfred Bruce), Lord (1870-1945). – Letters to my Father-in-Law, no. 1. London, 1914. SS. A. 34.

– An attack on Colonel Frederic Hambleton Custance for engaging George Lewis, a solicitor, as Lewis is using Custance "as a catspaw" in the interests of Robert Ross "the notorious Sodomite" and Ross's secretary, Christopher Millard. Signed: Alfred Bruce Douglas. Drop-head title. The letter is headed: 19, Royal Avenue: Sloane Square, S.W, March 20 1914, and begins: "Colonel Custance: your advertisement to all England of the kind of people the Custances are ...". There is a copy in the General Catalogue at shelfmark: C.194.a.235.

DOUGLAS, (Alfred Bruce), Lord. – The Rossiad. London, 1916. SS. B. 16.

– Presumably a libelous satire on Robert Ross, Oscar Wilde’s friend and executor. A copy of the second edition (Galashiels: Robert Dawson & Son, [1916]. In-8°. pp. 15) is shelved at pressmark: X.909/20162. The fourth edition (Galashiels: Robert Dawson & Son, 1921. In-8°. pp. 23) is at X.909/24366.

EVERETT, (Henry Gordon). – Election Address, General Election, April 1922. SS. A. 341(1).

– A presumably non-libelous Election address by Everett, printed at his own expense, was issued during a subsequent election: Election Address [for the Islington Guardians Election, 1928]. (London: H. G. Everett, [1928.] s. sh. In-4o.) The pressmark is: 1865.c.19.(52.)

EVERETT, (Henry Gordon). – A Grave Islington Scandal, 1921. SS. A. 341(2).

EVERETT, (Henry Gordon). – Judge made law. Libelous. SS. A. 341(3).

FITZGIBBON, (Constantine). – When the Kissing had to Stop.London: Cassell, 1960.

– Suppressed for libelling a night club proprietor. cf. Peter Fryer, Private Case, Public Scandal, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1966, pp. 152). Later, presumably expurgated, reprints are in the General Catalogue, but not the 1960 original edition, which is presumably still in the SS.

FITZROY, (A. T.) pseud. [i.e. Rose Laure Allatini, afterwards Scott] – Despised and Rejected. London: C. W. Daniel, 1918. In-8°. pp. 350. SS. A. 87.

– A novel suppressed because of its anti-recruiting sentiments. There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: Cup.403.c.26. A reprint done in 1988 is shelved at: YC.1988.a.12502

FORD, (Richard). – Anna Craft. London, 1936.

– A first novel, well received by the likes of the Times Literary Supplement, but suppressed because it allegedly libelled a prominent woman journalist. cf. Peter Fryer, Private Case, Public Scandal, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1966, pp. 152). Since there appears to be no copy in the General Catalogue, one must assume it's still in the SS. There are however copies preserved at Oxford, the National Library of Scotland and Trinity College, Dubin.

FREETHINKER. – Freethinker. Christmas Number. London, 1882. (Blasphemous). SS. C. 9.

– A weekly newspaper edited by G. W. Foote and William Ramsay, under the agis of the Freethought Publishing Company. A series of "Comic Bible Sketches" in the periodical caused problems and it was prosecuted for blasphemy. Foote got a year in prison and Ramsay nine months. The "Freethinker" Christmas number prosecution : Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, Thursday, March 1st, 1883, an account of the case, was published by Edward B. Aveling for the Progressive Publishing Company, at London in 1883. A copy preserved at Bristol University (Store 410874). For furher details, see Donald Thomas, A Long Time Burning (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969), pp. 233,4.

GALE, (Norman Roland). – Close of Play. [Verses.] Rugby: George Over, 1936. in-8°. pp. 46. SS. B. 67.

– There are two copies in the General Catalogue at pressmarks: 11655. c. 24 and X.989/5341. A novel of the same title by Nina Warner Hooke was also published in 1936, at London by Putnam. The pressmark is: NN.26627.

GOLLANCZ, (Israel). – Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple. Newly edited from the original MSS. by Israel Gollancz. London: Alexander Moring, The De La More Press, 1903. 8°. pp. xxxvii, 364. Part of The King's Classics. SS. A. 100.

– "Injunction obtained by Judge Parry." There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: 012209.h.1/61. Sir Israel Gollancz (1864 - 1930) was a scholar of early English literature and of Shakespeare. He was the younger brother of Sir Hermann Gollancz. He was a founder member and the first Secretary of the British Academy and of the committee for a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, which eventually became the Royal National Theatre in London. He edited the "Temple" Shakespeare, a uniform edition of the complete works in pocket size volumes which was the most popular Shakespeare edition of its day. He also produced a translation in modern English of the important Anglo-Saxon Christian allegorical poem, "Pearl."

GRANDMOTHER, A. – Laughter of Life, by A Grandmother. London, 1937. SS. B. 90.

– There is a work listed in the General Catalogue entitled Laughter of Life (London & Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co.: 1932. 8°. pp. 320) by Effie Adelaide Rowlands [i.e. Effie Maria Albanesi.] The pressmark is: NN.20558.

GRANTA. The Granta. 10 March 1933. Cambridge. SS. B. 79.

GRAVES, (Robert von Ranke). – Good-bye to all That. An Autobiography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. In-8°. pp. 448. SS. A. 374.

– "Withdrawn by the publishers." According to F. C. Higginson, A Bibliography of the Works of Robert Graves (Hamden, Conn: Archon Books, 1966), later states of this book were expurgated to remove a brief passage from p. 290 and a poem by Siegfried Sassoon occupying the last four lines of p. 341 and all of pp. 342,3. The General Catalogue includes a copy of the 3rd impression, published in 1929, at pressmark 010855. df. 29.

GREENIDGE, (Terence Lucy). – Brass and Paint: a Patriotic Story. London: Fortune Press, 1934. pp. 254. SS. A. 389.

– There appears to be no copy of this book in the General Catalogue, although a number of other works by the same author are, including Degenerate Oxford? (London, 1930). Brass and Paint, together with Greenidge's novel The Magnificent (1933), were among several books published by the Fortune Press to be seized by the police in 1934 and successfully prosecuted for obscene libel. According to Timothy d'Arch Smith, R. A. Caton and the Fortune Press (London: Bertram Rota, 1983), p. 56, the publisher failed to comply with the destruction order in the case of The Magnificent, and as late as 1971 copies were still in stock and available for sale. The pressmark of the British Library copy is: NN.20349.

GRENVILLE, (Thomas), Right Hon. Bibliographical Mema [?Memoranda]. SS. B. 2.

– A number of works by Grenville are listed in the General Catalogue, mostly of a bibliographical or historical nature, but none appear to relate to this title. Assuming this be the same individual as the author of the work in question, Thomas Grenville (1755–1846) was a British politician and bibliophile. He was the son of George Grenville, a British prime minister. His younger brother, William, also became prime minister. Both brothers were educated at Eton.

In 1778, he was commissioned ensign in the Coldstream Guards and in 1779 promoted a lieutenant in the 80th Regiment of Foot, but resigned his commission in 1780. He was, with one interval, a member of parliament from 1780 to 1810, and for a few months during 1806 and 1807 President of the Board of Control and First Lord of the Admiralty, but is perhaps more famous as a book-collector than as a statesman; he bequeathed his large and valuable library to the British Museum. In 1798, he was sworn of the Privy Council. He died at Piccadilly.

HALL, (Marguerite Radclyffe). – The Well of Loneliness. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. (Withdrawn from Publication by publishers at request of Home Office, August 22, 1928.) SS. A. 370.

– Several editions published at Paris and New York between 1928 and 1960 are in the General Catalogue, together with an English edition published at London by the Falcon Press in 1949, at pressmark Cup. 364. c. 55.

HARDY, (Thomas). – Compassion. An Ode in celebration of the centenary of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. London: Privately Printed for A. J. A. Symons, 1924. In-8°. SS. B. 97.

– Limited to 50 copies. There are two in the British Library, at pressmarks Cup. 500. h. 4. and Cup. 503 a. 30. The latter includes a letter from Symons to T. J. Wise.

HARDY, (Thomas). – Domicilium. [A poem.] [London: 1916.] In-4°. pp. 7. "Twenty-five copies have been privately printed by Clement Shorter for distribution among his friends." SS. b. 15(2).

– There are two copies in the General Catalogue, at pressmarks Cup. 503. n. 12 and Ashley3344.

HARTLEY, (Catherine Gasquoine). – The Cathedrals of Southern Spain. Introductory Sketch (only). See Report to Trustees, 31.12.[19]21. SS. A. 92.

– The General Catalogue lists the following work by Hartley: "The Cathedrals of Southern Spain. [With illustrations.] London: T. Werner Laurie [1913]. In-8°. pp. viii.248. Part of the Cathedral Series." Pressmark: 07816. g. 31.

HARTLEY, (Catherine Gasquoine). – The Story of Santiago de Compostela. London, J. M. Dent & sons, Ltd.; New York, E. P. Dutton & co., 1912. In-8°. pp. xii, 332, incl. illus., plates. plates, fold. plans. SS. A. 91.

> – "Withdrawn by order of High Court. See note in book." There is no copy of this book listed in the British Library General Catalogue, but there is one in the Library of Congress at pressmark: DP402.S23 H3 Microfilm 46552 DP.

Catherine Gasquoine Hartley (1866[69?]-1928), author, journalist, headmistress and feminist; also known as Mrs. Walter M. Gallichan and Mrs. Arthur D. Lewis. Born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Hartley was the second daughter of Reverend Richard Griffiths Hartley and Catherine Gasquoine. She was schooled privately and had no formal education until she was 16. Her first job was teaching, and in 1894 she became headmistress at Babington House School in Kent, England–a position she held until about 1903, when she left Kent and her job to begin a career as a writer in London. After composing an unsuccessful novel, Hartley went on to become a prolific journalist and author of non-fiction. She published books on art, Spanish culture and society, feminist issues, human sexuality, and children. She also wrote articles for the New Age, Art Journal, Connoisseur, the English Review, and the Daily Express. Her first marriage was to Walter M. Gallichan; her second, to Arthur D. Lewis.

Hartley contributed several art reviews in the first two volumes (1907-8) of the New Age. Her pieces discussed recent exhibits by British artists--like Charles Shannon, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and John Collier–-who had established their reputation in the late 19th century and sometimes indulged a taste for classical antiquariansim in their work. In a review titled "The Confusion of Art," Hartley criticized the artistic outlook of a number of Fabians as being too doctrinaire and missionary; here she may have offered New Age readers an alternative to the socialist, guild-minded outlook that A. J. Penty and A. Romney Green brought to their New Age art reviews in other weeks.

HEADMASTERS´ CONFERENCE. Report, 1912-18. London, 1913-1919. Private and Confidential. SS. B. 39.

[HEMPSTEAD, (Edward Charles).] – Introduction to the Study of the Psychology and Physiology and Bio-Chemistry of The Sexual Impulse among Adults in Mental and Bodily Health. By Edward Charles, [pseud.] London: Boriswood, 1935. In-8°. pp. xiii+306. Plates and tables. SS. A. 408.

– Received by the British Library on March 27th 1935. Presently residing at pressmark: Cup. 364. f. 8.

HENDERSON, (Cecil). – Death in the Dark. London, 1933. SS. A. 410.

– As might be expected there are several works entitled Death in the Dark listed in the General Catalogue and the Library of Congress, but none are associated with a Cecil Henderson, or were published in 1933.

HOBHOUSE, (John Cam), Baron Broughton (1786-1869). – A Contemporary Account of the Separation of Lord and Lady Byron; also of the destruction of Lord Byron´s Memoirs. London: Privately Printed, 1870. 8vo. pp. iv+239. SS. B. 21.

– The description of this work in the original typewritten catalogue is confusing, giving the date 1816 and the authorship jointly credited to both Hobhouse and a Viscount R. A. Cross. Who the latter is in connection with Byron I have no idea, altough he held the post of President of the Board of Control for the years 1886-92, a position held earlier (1846-52) by John Cam Hobhouse. A Viscount Richard Asherton Cross appears in the General Catalogue, but neither this name nor anything like it occurs in the works on Byron that I´ve consulted on this matter, but in truth my researches have not been too thorough. I am assuming that the book referred to, as described above, is the one deposited in the SS; it is certainly mentioned by Peter Fryer in his chapter on the subject in Private Case, Public Scandal. The text is extracted from Hobhouse´s then unpublished Recollections of a Long Life (London, 1909-1911, 6 vols). See G. Wilson Knight, Lord Byron´s Marriage (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959), p. 233. The British Library has two copies in the General Catalogue, at pressmarks: Ashley 2742 (part of the Wise Collection) and 1560/162. I have no idea which, if either, was formerly in the SS collection. A third copy is currently (September 2002) being offered for sale on the Internet by Alex Alec-Smith Books of Hull, United Kingdom, for the princely sum of £3,600.

HOWARD, William Cecil James Philip John Paul, Earl of Wicklow (1902-1978). – Family Failing. London, 1937. SS. A. 424.

– William Cecil James Philip John Paul Howard, the 8th Earl of Wicklow, was known as Viscount Clonmore until he succeeded to the Earldom in 1946. He was educated at Eton College, Magdalen College, Oxford and St Stephen's House, Oxford and ordained deacon and priest in the Anglican Communion. He worked for the Magdalen Mission in Somers Town. Having been a zealous Anglo-Catholic, he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1932 and thereafter lived as a layman. He was disinherited by his father and banished from the family home on Sundays because he was thought to be an embarrassment on account of his attending Mass with the servants, who were Catholics. During the Second World War he served as a Captain in the Royal Fusiliers. He published in 1937 a biography of Pope Pius XI and two years later edited an anthology of pieces by Catholic writers on Christmas. A Viscount Clonmore was a close friend of John Betjeman and the author of the Shell Guide to Kent (Architectural Press, April 1935). Copies of Family Failing are preserved at Oxford, Cambridge and the National Library of Scotland. There seems to be no copy in the General Catalogue of the British Library.

INNES, (Thomas Christie). – Parables from Stamps for Young and Old. London: Pickering & Inglis, 1939. In-8°. pp. 159. SS. A. 426.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at Cup.410.f.617 and a re-issue with black and white plates at pressmark: 20034. aa. 3.

JACKSON, (Lillian). – My Diary. London, 1942. SS. A. 103.

– There appears to be no work of this description in the General Catalogue, nor in the Library of Congress.

JAMES, (Norah Cordner.). – Sleeveless Errand. London: Scholartis Press, 1929. In-8°. pp. 238. SS. A. 372.

– "Seized by police before publication and ordered to be destroyed. NOT TO BE AVAILABLE TO READERS." There is Copy in the General Catalogue at Cup. 802. a. 43.

JANSON, (Hank) [Stephen Daniel Frances]. – Accused. London: New Fiction Press [c. 1954]. In-8°. pp. 128. SS. Cup. 9. c. 3.

– Now shelved at P.C. 21. aa. 10.

JANSON, (Hank) [Stephen Daniel Frances]. – Amok. London: New Fiction Press [c. 1954]. In-8°. pp. 143. SS. Cup. 9. c. 4.

– Now shelved at P.C. 21. aa. 14.

JANSON, (Hank) [Stephen Daniel Frances]. – Killer. London: New Fiction Press [c. 1952]. In-8°. pp. 128. SS. Cup. 9. c. 6.

– Formeryly at Cup. 367. bb. 36; now shelved at P.C. 21. aa. 7.

JANSON, (Hank) [Stephen Daniel Frances]. – Persian Pride. London: New Fiction Press [c. 1953]. In-8°. pp. 127. SS. Cup. 9. c. 7.

– Now shelved at P.C. 21. aa. 11.

JANSON, (Hank) [Stephen Daniel Frances]. – Pursuit. London: New Fiction Press [c. 1953]. In-8°. pp. 143. SS. Cup. 9. c. 8.

– Now shelved at P.C. 21. aa. 12.

JANSON, (Hank) [Stephen Daniel Frances]. – Vengeance. London: New Fiction Press [c. 1953]. In-8°. pp. 142. SS. Cup. 9. c. 9.

– Now shelved at P.C. 21. aa. 13.

JONES, (Mr. and Mrs. of Pantglâs). – Glimpses. n.p., 1862. In-8°. pp. 257. SS. A. 26.

– There is a copy in General Catalogue at pressmark: 1609/1531.

JONES. (Jefferson). – The Fall of Tsingtau, with a study of Japan's ambitions in China … With illustrations. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.,1915.In-8°. pp. xvii. 214.

– This book was suppressed for the duration of WWI because of its hostile attitude toward the Allies, cf. Peter Fryer, Private Case, Public Scandal, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1966, pp. 139,40). The original SS pressmark is unknown to me, but it is presently shelved at 9084.df.19.

JORDAN, (Philip). – There is no Return. [Reminiscences of travels in various countries.] London: Cresset Press, 1938. In-8°. pp. 350. SS. D. 98.

– There are two copies in the General Catalogue, at pressmarks: 10026.t.6 and X.989/5349.

KNOLLYS, (Henry), Sir. – Life of General Sir Hope Grant, with selections from his correspondence. Edited by Henry Knollys … With portraits of Sir Hope Grant, and maps and plans. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1894. In-8°. 2 vols.

– cf. Peter Fryer, Private Case, Public Scandal, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1966, pp. 153.) There are now three copies of this work in the General Catalogue, at 1609/1861, T 10872 and 010855.b.15. One contains press cuttings "relating to the action for libel brought by the Rev. T. W. Belcher against the author," but from the online catalogue entries it's not entirely clear which one.

LADIES DIRECTORY. no. 7-10 [i.e. 1-4]. [London:] Shaw Publishing Co. [1959,60]. In-8°. SS. Cup. 12. c. 2.

– A mimeographed list of 'models.' Currently shelved at Cup.1001.d.5. Another edition, a revised version of no. 7 [i.e. no. 1] with a supplement, is at Cup.1001.d.5a.F

LANE, (Rhona Arbuthnot) (1885-1953). – An Anthology of the Seasons. Collected by R. A. Lane,&c. London: Frederick Muller, 1936. In-8°. pp. 294. SS. A. 420.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: 11655.bbb.51.

LAWRENCE, (D. H.). – The Rainbow. London: Methuen & Co., 1915. In-8°. pp. vii.436. SS. A. 57.

– "Obscene; all copies seized." Copies of this and a "Methuen's Colonial Library" edition were in the Private Case, but later removed to the General Library, at C. 124. dd. 16 and C. 124. dd. 17.

LAWRENCE, (T. E.). See: ROSS A/C.

LE CARON. (Henri), pseud. [i.e. Thomas Miller Beach.] – Twenty-five years in the secret service. The recollections of a spy … With portraits and facsimiles. London: William Heinemann, 1892. In-8°. pp. vi, 311.

– Ordered to be sealed up for libel, cf. Peter Fryer, Private Case, Public Scandal, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1966, pp. 151). The original SS pressmark is unknown to me. Fryer notes that the expurgated 6th edition is in the General Library. However, in addition to that, the General Library appears to now have the first edition at 1609/1522, together with copies of a number of subsequent printings.

LESLIE, (Sir John Randolph Shane), Bart.– The Cantab. London: Chatto and Windus, 1926. In-8°. pp. 285. SS. A. 363.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: YA.1987.a.14875. A copy of the revised second edition, also published in 1926 by Chatto and Windus, is at pressmark: NN.12088.

LEVY, (Amy). – A Ballad of Religion and Marriage. [London, c.1915.] In-4°. "…12 copies only have been printed for private circulation." SS. B. 15(3).

– There are two copies in the General Catalogue at pressmarks: Cup. 503. n. 9 and Ashley3583

MACKAY. (Charles Robert). – Life of Charles Bradlaugh, M.P. By Charles R. Mackay [or rather, by William Harral Johnson, and William Stewart Ross, with interpolations by C. R. Mackay]. London: D. J. Gunn & Co., 1888. In-8°. pp. xv. 468.

– Suppressed for being libellous, cf. Peter Fryer, Private Case, Public Scandal, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1966, pp. 140,41). The original SS pressmark is unknown to me, but the BL has two copies listed in the General Catalogue at 10826.f.18.and Cup.504.a.5. The latter has MS notes by William H. Johnson.

MACKEOGH, (Gretta). – The Magnetism of Health. London: C.W. Daniel, 1936. SS. A. 419.

– There is nothing in the General Catalogue of this description. However, Cambridge University and the National Library of Scotland have copies with "a dietetic chapter by Olive Wilson." Oxford University also has a copy, but their online catalogue entry makes no mention of Ms Wilson or her dietetic chapter. All three copies or editions were printed in the same year, 1936.

MAID OF HONOUR. A Peep at our Cousins, by a Maid of Honour. New York, First edition, Copyright 1888. SS. A. 97.

– This work seems to be a piece of rare ephemera. The National Union Catalogue (Pre-1956 Imprints, vol. 447, p. 301) lists a solitary copy of an edition of this work, preserved at Columbia University, New York. A request for a Xerox copy was rejected, politely, on the grounds of its fragile condition. It was published at New York by the Minerva Publishing Company, with the date tentatively given as 1888, and has seventy-five pages. There appears to be no copy in the British Library's General Catalogue.

MAID OF HONOUR. A Peep at our Cousins… Second ed. Stamped 1900. SS. A. 98.

MANTEGAZZA, (Paolo). – The Art of Taking a Wife. London: Gay and Bird, 1894. In-8°. pp. xx+310. SS. A. 76. – There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: 8416.de.52.

MAIR, (John). – Never Came Back. London, 1940. SS. B. 106.

– The General Catalogue has an edition of this published at London in 1941 by Victor Gollancz at pressmark: NN.32191. Copies of the original 1940 edition are preserved at Oxford and the National Library of Scotland.

MALLET, (J. Reddie.). – Book of Health. London [19--?] SS. A. 382.

– The General Catalogue has only one book by this author listed, Food the Physician (London: Watts & Co., 1931) at pressmark: 7384.pp.36. No copy of a book by Mallet called Book of Health seems to exist in any of the British copyright libraries. A volume of verses by Mallet called A life's history told in homely verse and miscellaneous poems (London: Bentley, 1895) is preserved in the Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru [National Library of Wales].

MALOT, (Hector). – Josey. The Story of a Great Divorce Case. Translated from the French, &c London: Henning & Co., 1887. In-8°. pp. 200. SS. A. 63(2).

– This work evidently relates to the Sir Charles Dilke scandal; see also entries above for CRAWFORD,(Donald). There is a copy in the General catalogue at pressmark Cup. 403. tt. 7.

MCGUINNESS, (Charles John) (1893-1947). – Nomad. Memoirs of an Irish sailor, soldier, pearlfisher, pirate, gun-runner, rum-runner, rebel and Antarctic explorer. With 11 illustrations [including a portrait.] London: Methuen and Co., 1934. In-8°. pp. xi+289. SS. A. 412.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: 010825.de.31. Whether this is the same one suppressed in 1934 I am unable to say. Other copies are preserved at the libraries of Cambridge and Oxford Universities. The copy at Oxford has the shelfmark 2033 e.242 and the catalogue entry is annotated "(Not available for consultation) Restricted: ask Duke Humfrey staff." Cambridge has two copies, shelfmarked 459.d.93.22 and Arc.d.93.404.

MEYRICK, (Kate Evelyn). – Secrets of the 43. Reminiscences by Mrs. Meyrick [With plates, including portaits.] London: John Long, 1933. 8vo. pp. 281. SS. A. 415.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark 010825.k.12. I am deeply indebted to Mr. Clive Vaisey of London for drawing my attention to a serious blunder in the original entry for this book.  Formerly, I had the work credited to Florence Elizabeth Chandler Maybrick, as Gershon Legman had given it in his typewritten copy of the SS catalogue. Mr. Vasiey points out that "Florence E. MAYBRICK was an American woman married to a British man; in the late 19th century; she was accused of murdering him by poison. She was tried and acquitted, but the verdict was very controversial. There are at least 12 books in the British Library OPAC on the internet dealing with Mrs Maybrick." Kate Meyrick, on the other hand, "was Irish and came to London just after the First World War to run nightclubs. She was frequently fined for breaches of the alcohol licensing laws and in 1929 was successfully prosecuted for bribing policemen to ignore these breaches. This didn't damage her career; she went back to running nightclubs and died in 1933. Her most famous venue was called 'The 43', after its address, 43 Gerrard Street. 'The 43' was popular with the more raffish end of the smart set at the time. It is this Mrs Meyrick who wrote the book called "Secrets of the 43". Although it was probably quite innocuous by today's standards, no doubt it could have shown some prominent people in a poor light, which may account for its suppression. She appears in a lightly disguised form in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited." The possibility that there exists in the SS a book about the alleged murderess, suppressed perhaps for reasons of libel, should not be ruled out.

MOORE, (George). – Unauthorized publication stated to have been printed from the stolen manuscript of a passage in George Moore´s Memoirs of My Dead Life which had been rejected by the author. SS. B. 98.

MUTUA CONFIDENTIA. No. 4, Apr. 1889; No. 8, Aug. No. 12, Dec, 1890; and Nos. 2-5, Feb.-May 1891. (Strictly Private and Confidential.) SS. C.1.

– "Discontinued. Printed for private circulation. A list of debtors." Apparently issues of a subscription-only credit rating periodical founded in Holland in the 1850s by W.J.J. Gompertz. The company is today called Wys Muller Commercial Information.

PARTINGTON, (Wilfred). – Forging Ahead. The True Story of the Upward Progress of Thomas J. Wise, Prince of Book Collectors, Bibliographer Extraordinary & Otherwise. [With plates, including portraits.] New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1939. In-8°. pp. xiv+315. SS. B. 103.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: 10861.ff.18. An enlarged edition was published as Thomas J. Wise in the Original Cloth. The life and record of the forger of the nineteenth-century pamphlets… With an appendix by George Bernard Shaw (London: Robert Hale, 1946). General Catalogue pressmark: 10861.g.7.

PENZOLDT, (Ernst) [1892-1955]. – [Der arme Chatterton.] The Marvellous Boy… Translated by John J. Trounstine and Eleanor Woolf, etc. [A novel.]. London: G. G. Harrap, 1932. In-8°. pp. 272. SS. A. 69.

– There are two copies in the General Catalogue, at pressmarks: 12557.t.13 and X.989/5596. This would appear to be a reprint of a work originally published in the United States by Harcourt Brace & Co.in 1931. I am obliged to Karl-Ludwig Leonhardt for writing to tell me that the original German text was published by Insel Verlag in 1928.

[PIGGOTT, (William).] – The Yoke. By Hubert Wales [pseud.]. London: John Long, 1907. In-8°. pp. 315. SS. A. 60.

– Found to be "Libellous and obscene" and suppressed. A novel in which a mother seduces her own son in order to protect him from the attentions of an undesirable female Transferred to the Private Case, P.C. 14. d. 2, and later to the General Library at Cup. 701. h. 25. Another copy is shelved at: NOV.1993/593.

[Another edition of the preceding.] – The Yoke. By Hubert Wales [pseud.]. Popular Edition. London: John Long, 1908. In-8°. pp. 315. SS. A. 60.

– Transferred to the Private Case, P.C. 14. d. 1, and later to the General Library at Cup. 701. h. 26. Another copy is shelved at: NOV.1993/594.

PINE, (Julian), pseud. [i.e. Oliver Anderson]. – Rotten Borough. A Frolic. London: I. Nicholson & Watson,, 1937. In-8°. pp. 320. SS. A. 425.

– A reprint, published at London in 1989 by Fourth Estate, is in the General Catalogue at pressmark: H.89/497. It was published under the author's true name. The blurb on the back wrapper of the reprint reads: "Just three weeks after Rotten Borough first hit the bookshops in 1937 it was withdrawn amidst a flurry of writs from assorted Grantham bigwigs… Oliver Anderson, the son of a local Rector, was working on a Grantham newspaper when Rotten Borough was first published. After serving in the artillery during the Second World War, he returned to Lincolnshire, where he still lives, and wrote a further dozen novels." I am obliged to Mr. Neal Crawford for providing me with this information. He adds: "The jacket graphics [of the reprint] play on the scandal in Grantham plus [Margaret] Thatcher, since it was published in 1989. This seems to be the only reason for republication." Copies of the original are preserved at Cambridge, Oxford and the National Library of Scotland.

POLICE GAZETTE. June 2–July 26, 1858; Jan. 1, 1877, etc. (Released 17.5.24) (Withdrawn O.T. Mar. 8, 1913.) But see "Colindale" above. N.R. – O.T. is yet another of the British Library's cabalistic acronyms, this one probably meaning something like "By Order of the Trustees."

POTOCKI, (Geoffrey Wladislas Vaile), Count de Montalk. – Here Lies John Penis. Paris: 73 Boulevard Rabelais, 1934. SS. A. 409.

– The General Catalogue lists an edition of this slim volume of verses in the Private Case at P.C. 24. a. 34. It is stated to have been published in 1932 at London, but falsely imprinted Paris, and to have ms. notes by the author. Peter Fryer, in Private Case, Public Scandal, writes that the copy of Here Lies John Penis in the SS is of a pirated edition.

REINHARD, (Wilhelm). – [Lenchen im Zuchthause] Nell in Bridwell. London: Fortune Press, 1934. In-8°. pp. 288.

– Suppressed shortly after publication, but de-suppressed about 1953 by Frank Francis, then a Keeper in the Dept. of Printed Books. Stolen in 1959. The British Library now has another copy at pressmark Cup.364.c.30. See: eter Fryer, Private Case, Public Scandal, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1966, pp. 147.)

RICHARDS, (John Randolph). – That Man Markham. London, 1938. SS. B. 91

– There is nothing in the General Catalogue matching these details, although there is a novel credited to Richards called The Day Will Come (London: Longmans, 1938) at pressmark NN.29258. Copies of "That Man Markham" are available at Trinity College, Dublin, the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge Universities and The National Library of Scotland.

ROBERTON, (Hugh Stevenson), Sir. 1874-1952 – Songs of the Isles. A Collection of Island and Highland Tunes from various sources, set to English, or to Anglo-Scottish, words and arranged by H. S. Roberton, etc. no. 8. London: J. Curwen & Sons, 1938. SS. C. 64.

– Issued in twenty-five numbered parts between 1937-1950. Issue number 8, published in 1938, was withdrawn after publication. Issues no. 1-7, 9-25 are shelved at G.981.u.

ROSENBERG'S LITTLE JOURNAL, independent and plain-spoken. Nos. 1-17, 18 Sept.1886 - 8 Jan.1887. SS. -?-.

– Discontinued. Edited by Adolphus Rosenberg. "British Library NPL Shelfmarks held at Newspaper Library issue desk Request." Another run is at Leeds University, Brotherton Library Special Collections. Adolphus Rosenberg was successfully prosecuted in October 1881 in London for a libel against Lilly Langtry and Patsy Cornwallis-West in the periodical Town Talk. He was convicted and sentenced t0 18 months' imprisonment. See also the entry for Town Topics, below.

ROSS A/C [T. E. Lawrence]. – The Mint. Notes made in the R.A.F. depot between August and December 1922, and at cadet college in 1925. By 352087 A/c Ross. Regrouped and copied in 1927 and 1928 at aircraft depot, Karachi. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. In-8°. pp. vii+199. SS. B. 85.

– An edition published in fifty copies for copyright purposes. 'Not to be opened for twenty-five years from October 9th [19]36.' Another copy of this edition is in the Library of Congress, Delta Collection. Reprinted in 1955 by Doubleday, at London and New York, in both trade and limited editions, the limited edition only giving the complete text and including all the 'coarse' language. There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: C.133.ee.1. The text of both the expurgated and unexpurgated editions are freely available on the Internet.

RUSKIN, (John). – An Ill-Assorted Marriage. An unpublished letter by John Ruskin. (To F. J. Furnivall, 18 August 1854.) [On his marriage to Euphemia Gray, afterwards Lady Millais. With a facsimile of the letter and an Introduction by Clement Shorter.] Clement Shorter, [London, 1915]. In-4°. SS. B. 15(4).

– Limited to 25 copies, privately printed. There are two copies in the General Catalogue, at Cup. 503. n. 11 and at Ashley 3922.

RUSKIN, (John). – Ruskin´s Romance. [An account of his marriage and divorce.] Reprinted from a New England newspaper. 1889. In-8°. pp. 10. SS. A. 81(6).

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: C.131. de. 22. The divorce of John Ruskin and Euphemia Gray was the cause of much speculation, especially after she was disovered to be a virgin by her second husband, Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. The most common theories concerning the divorce was that Ruskin either had an aversion to pubic hair or else Euphemia was having her period at the time of the marriage, a condition that was perhaps new to him and may have been distasteful. A third suggestion, and a more probable one, is that Ruskin was impotent.

SABINE, (William Henry Waldo) (1903-1994). – Guido and the Girls. Private Edition. Harrogate: Quess Press, 1933. In-8°. pp. 141. SS. A. 399.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: Cup.1000.aaa.1.

SABINE, (William Henry Waldo). – Guido and the Girls… Second edition. Harrogate: Quess Press, 1933. In-8°. pp. 141. SS. A. 400.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: Cup.1000.aaa.2. It may previously have been shelved at pressmark: P.C. 15. de. 29.

SABINE, (William Henry Waldo). – Guido and the Girls. Third (revised) edition. Harrogate: Quess Press, 1933. In-8°. pp. 141. SS. A. 401.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: Cup.1000.aaa.3.

SABINE, (William Henry Waldo). – Guido and the Girls. Fourth edition. Illustrated by Ellen Borcherding. Harrogate: Quess Press, 1934. In-8°. pp. 141. SS. A. 401.

– There are two copies in the General Catalogue, at pressmarks: P.C.15.df.5. and Cup.1000.c.5. – "During the year following Montalk's [see entry above for "Potocki"] case a young man who had written a long poem in Spenserian stanzas, entitled Guido and the Girls, had it privately printed and advertised by postal circulars. Besides recounting his love struggles, the poem aimed a good deal of Chaucerian abuse at priests and lawyers. It received kindly treatment from the Press though The Times Literary Supplement administered a gentle rebuke for coarseness. A third and extended edition issued in 1934 satirized the late Lord Halifax (in very thin disguise) as a religious maniac. The authorities then decided to suppress the book. The author was charged with publishing an obscene libel and fined £500 at Leeds Assizes." – Alec Craig, The Banned Books of England (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1962), p. [92].

SAINT-MANDÉ, (Wilfred) pseud. [i.e. H. P. Lamont.] – War, Wine, and Women. London: Cassell & Co., 1931. In-8°. pp. 552. SS. A. 385.

– A novel of the author's experiences in the trenches of WWI. There is a copy of the tenth edition in the General Catalogue at pressmark: 010821.f.46. It was published in 1936. A reprint was published at London in 1951 by Cassell. Copies of the original edition of 1931 are preserved at Trinity College, Dublin, Cambridge, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru [National Library of Wales] and Oxford.

SECONDUS, (Johannes). – Kisses, being the Basia of Iohannes Secundus rendered into English verse by Thomas Stanley, 1647. London: Fortune Press, 1927. Fol. pp. [24]. SS. B. 71.

– Withdrawn by the publisher. "700 copies on handmade paper; 100 were to have been bound in vellum. Most copies of this edition were surrendered to the Nonesuch Press at its request, owing to its being a typographical piracy, and were destroyed." Timothy d´Arch Smith, R. A. Caton and the Fortune Press (London: Bertram Rota, 1983), p. 81. There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: Cup.510.as.19.

SHAKESPEARE, (William). – Modern Characters from Shakespeare. London, 1778. (Ms. additions supposed to be by George III. According to memo by Sir Edward Thompson, not by George III.) Sealed. Only to be opened by permission of the Trustees. Minutes 10 July 1847 and 14 October 1899. SS. A. 96.

– The National Union Catalogue, Pre-1956 Imprints (vol. 388, p. 557) lists the following: "Modern Characters from Shakespeare, alphabetically arranged… London: Printed for E. Johnson, 1778. in-8°. pp. iv.88," and notes it as being a "New edition."

SIEVIER´S MONTHLY. No. 5, May 1909 and No. 11, November 1909. London. SS. A. 24.

– Published and edited by Robert Standish Sievier. Copies are also pressmarked P.P.6018.tae. Standish, apparently quite an important figure in horse racing circles, published a volume of autobiography in 1906 under the Winning Post imprint from an address on Essex Street off the Strand. He was slandered in October 1906 by Sir James Duke who charged that he was a "card sharper, thief and murderer." Seivier would seem to have won the case.

SMITH, (Eleanor Furneaux), Lady. (1902-1945) – Christmas Tree. London: Victor Gollancz, 1933. In-8°. pp. 288. SS. A. 411.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: NN.21409. Eleanor Furneaux Smith was an English author, journalist and film critic.

STODDARD, (John Lawson). – What Shall We Do With Wilson? Meran, Tyrol: F. Pleticha 1916. In-8°. pp. 12. SS. B. 34(7).

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: 8176.ff.9. An anti-American publication directed specifically against President Wilson and issued under the auspices of the so-called League of Truth. Permanently connected with the League was an American dentist who had been in jail in America and who had been expelled from Dresden by the police authorities there. The secretary was a German woman who posed as an American, and had been on the stage as a snake dancer. The principal organiser was a German named Marten who had won the favour of the German authorities by writing a book on Belgium denying that any atrocities had taken place there. Marten secured subscriptions from many Germans and Americans resident in Germany, opened headquarters in rooms on the Potsdamerstraße and engaged in the business of sending out pamphlets and leaflets attacking America. One of his principal supporters was a man named Stoddard who had made a fortune by giving travel lectures in America and who had retired to his handsome villa, in Meran, in Austria. Stoddard issued a pamphlet entitled, "What shall we do with Wilson?" and some atrocious attempts at verse, all of which were sent broadcast by the League of Truth. - Adapted from James W. Gerard, My Four Years in Germany (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917), chapter XVI.

SMITH, (Wallace). – Bessie Cotter. Toronto and London: William Heinemann, 1935. In-8°. pp. pp. viii. 272. SS. A. 404.

– A novel dealing in realistic terms with prostitution in Chicago. The publishers pleaded guilty to publishing an obscene work, and were fined £100. There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: P.C. 14. d. 3.

SPORTING TIMES. No. 3125, August 11th 1923. Withdrawn May 14th [19]24. SS. B. 65.

– Presumably the periodical otherwise known as "The Pink 'un" - 'A chronicle of racing, literature, art and the drama.'

STATE TRIALS. Charles I, 1631. Six leaves removed from Vol. 3 (Trial of Earl of Castlehaven for rape and sodomy). SS. B. 10.

TIME. The Weekly News Magazine [New York], 10th and 24th August, 1931; 7th December 1931; 18th April, 4th and 18th July 1932; 9th January 1933. SS. B. 77.

TITTLE TATTLE. Edited by Adolphus Rosenberg. No. 1. May 19, 1888. SS. -?-.

– Kept in the British Library's newpaper collection at Colindale. See also ROSENBERG, Adolphus.

TOWN TOPICS. Edited by Adolphus Rosenberg. 12 May to 16 June, 1894. Six numbers. SS. -?-

– See also ROSENBERG, Adolphus.

WADE, (Rosalind Herschel). – Children, be Happy! 1931. SS. A. 383.

– Nothing in the General Catalogue fits this information. However, there is by Rosalind Herschel Wade a book called Pity the Child! (London: Chapman & Hall, 1934) at pressmark: NN.22155. Copies of "Children, be Happy!" are available at Trinity College, Dublin, the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge Universities and The National Library of Scotland. In the catalogue entry for the Oxford copy is the admonition "Not available for consultation."

WAKEFIELD (William), Medical Electrician and Botanist. – The Wife's Doctor. A book for every woman. Leeds: N. G. Morrison, 1894. In-8°. pp. 161. SS. A. 77.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: Cup.365.b.16.

WHISPERING GALLERY (The), by Hesketh Pearson. Newspaper clippings: "Whispering Gallery Prosecution," 1926. SS. A. 364.

– The Whispering Gallery was written by Edward Hesketh Gibbons Pearson (1887-1964), an English actor, theatre director and writer. He was known mainly as the author of popular biographies, and is rumoured to have had an affair with Kitty Muggeridge, the wife of Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990), a British journalist, author, satirist, media personality, soldier-spy and Christian scholar. The Whispering Gallery was published anonymously in 1926 and purported to be extracts from the diaries of leading political figures of the day including Lenin and Mussolini. It became one of the biggest litereary hoaxes of the time, and Pearson was prosecuted for fraud on account of it but won the case.

WILDMAN, (Eric Arthur). – Modern Miss Delinquent. London, 1950. SS. Cup. 6 b. 5.

WILDMAN, (Eric Arthur). – Punishment Posture for Girls. London, 1950. SS. Cup. 6 b. 11.

– Both this and the preceding are mimeographed pamphlets put out by Wildman who ran at least two organisations dedicated to the retention of corporal punishment in schools, especially, it appears, for girls. They have been subsequently removed from the SS and put in the Private Case together with a many of Wildman publications under the pressmark P.C. 15. i. 3-119.

WILLIAMS, (G.). – Diving For Treasure. London: Faber & Gwyer, 1926. SS. A. 366.

– There is nothing in the General Catalogue of this description, although Faber & Gwyer published a number of books in 1926.

WOOD, (Joseph), operatic singer. – Authentic Memoirs of Mr. and Mrs. Wood: containing Miss Paton’s marriage with Lord W. Lennox… the means used by Lord Lennox, to obtain a divorce… also her ladyship's marriage with her paramour [i.e. J. Wood], etc. London: H. Smith [?William Dugdale], 1843. In-8°. pp. 105. SS. A. 99.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: Cup.403.tt.5.

ZINCKE (Foster Barham) (1817–1893). – The Days of my Years. A sequel to Some Materials for the History of Wherstead. [With a portrait, and an appendix containing Zincke's "Letters to the Electors of the Eye Division".]. Ipswich: Reed and Barrett, [1891]. In-8°. pp. xvi. 510. ("For Private Circulation" – note in book.) SS. B. 25.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: X.100/1296.

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ADDITIONS

Inserted September 2005

The additional titles in the SS collection listed below were kindly provided to me by Mr. Duncan Heyes, Curator of the Modern British Collections of the British Library. The details of these additions are somewhat sparse, and the reasons given for many of the suppressions – "print error" for example -- are prosaic. The three examples where no apparent motive is known for suppression are unfortunate and challenging.

The document listing the titles is tabulated, with the entries spread across seven columns, which are headed from left to right: Pressmark. – Title. – Author. – Publisher. – Reasons. – Notes 1. – Date.

The dates in the final column are all for the year 2003, which suggests the books may have been de-suppressed in that year and relocated elsewhere.

CAMBRIDGE MULTISECTORAL, The. Dynamic Model of the British Economy. Edited by Terry Barker & William Peterson. Cambridge University Press, 1987. One of the Cambridge Studies in Applied Econometrics. Suppressed July 31st. 2003 for being "illegal." Note: "stamped". SS.Cup.15.26.

– There are 2 volumes in the General Catalogue that closely match this title. One is at pressmark: YK.1988.b.4099. The other would seem identical save for Cambridge Studies in Applied Econometrics having the volume number 5 provided. shelfmark: 3015.992 no 5 DSC

DARVALL, Frank Ongley. – Popular disturbances and public order in Regency England; being an account of the Luddite and other disorders in England during the years 1811-1817, and of the attitude and activity of the authorities. New York, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969. 8vo. 363 pp. Suppressed "at the request of David & Charles, Newton Abbot. Devon 1969." SS.13.a.12.

– There appears to be a copyright confict here; however the situation is murky. According to the information supplied to me by Mr. Heyes, the suppressed edition is indeed the one published by Kelley in New York. However, no such edition appears to be in British Library. David & Charles are (or were) a reprint house in England who may well have been planning an edition of the book, and requested that the imported American edition be suppressed to protect their investment. But oddly, no David and Charles edition appears extant and the only one dated 1969 in the BL ws published by the Oxford University Press. Shelfmark: X.809/7358.

EVOLUTIONARY physiological ecology, edited by P. Calow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Large 8vo. 234 pp. Suppressed by reason of a "print error." Note: "stamped." SS.Cup.15.23.

– A copy is in the General Catalogue at shelfmark:(B) CE 82 Request

FLEMING, Peter. – News from Tartary. A Journey from Peking to Kashmir. London: Cape, 1936. 8vo. "Deposit copy 21/07/36… Replaced 07/91." SS.Cup.18/3.

– A copy is in the General Catalogue at shelfmark: 915 *1669* DSC

HOGWOOD, Christopher. – Haydn's Visit to England. London: The Folio Society, 1980. 8vo. 116 pp. ill., music,facsim.,ports. Suppressed for having "imperfect copyright." SS.Cup.16/4

– A copy is in the General Catalogue at shelfmark: X.809/48919.

HORNMAN, Wim. – [De rebel.] The Rebel Priest. Translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. London: Collins, 1971. 8vo. 319 pp. [Based on the life of Fr. Camilo Torres.] Suppressed for having a "print error," and noted as having been "replaced." SS.Cup13.b.12.

– A presumably corrected copy is in the General Catalogue at shelfmark: X.989/10258.

INSTITUTE OF SOUND AND VIBRATION RESEARCH. University of Southampton. (67 parts.) University of Southampton, 1974-87. Suppressed August 6th 2003, for being "Commerical - in confidence." SS. CUP 15/3.

INSTITUTE OF SOUND AND VIBRATION RESEARCH. University of Southampton. (60 parts.) University of Southampton, 1981-90. Suppressed August 6th 2003, for being "Commerical - in confidence." SS. CUP 15/3.

KING, Henry Edward. – General Certificate Woodwork. London: Harrap, 1975. Large 8vo. 127 pp. Suppressed by reason of a "print error." SS.Cup.15.13.

– There are two copies in the General Catalogue, at shelfmarks: X.611/7337 & YK.1989.b.1825.

LISTER, Roma. – Further Reminiscences: occult and social. With 16 illustrations. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1927]. 8vo. pp. 314. "Withdrawn by the publisher." SS.A365.

– A copy is in the General Catalogue at shelfmark: 010856.cc.19. Roma Lister was an Italian folklorist, a contemporary and friend of the American folklorist and author Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903).

LYONS, Edward Thomas. – An historical survey of Great Western engine sheds, 1947. Oxford: Oxford Publishing Co., [1972]. 8vo. 284 pp. illus., maps. "Deposit copy 1972. Replaced 07/91." SS.Cup.18/2.

– A copy is in the General Catalogue at shelfmark: Cup.26.j.40.

MALLETT, Josiah Reddie Martin. – The Book of Health. London: Watts & Co., 1926. 8vo. xii. 240. "Withdrawn by publisher." SS.A382.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at shelfmark: 7383.b.5.

MATTINGLY, Christobel. – The battle of the galah trees. Illustrated by Gareth Floyd. Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1973. 8vo. 119 pp. Illustrations. Suppressed for being a "defective copy." A replacement copy was sent, and the suppressed vol. includes a note. SS.Cup.14.a.26.

– What must presumably be the replacement copy is in the General Catalogue at shelfmark: X.990/4139.

MILLER, Jane. – Farm Machinery. London: Dent, 1987. 8vo. 28 pp. A book "for juveniles, comprising "chiefly coloured illustrations." Suppressed for "not [being] up to publishers standards." SS.Cup.15.27.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at shelfmark: YK.1988.a.1.

RAMAGE, F. W. – Kelly's draftsman. 16th ed. London: Butterworths, 1993. 8vo. xc.1290 pp. "Edition reprinted. Request od destrution [sic]. Feb. 1993… Note attached. SS.18.12.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue (shelfmark: V95/29849 DSC) together with two copies of a "rev. and reprinted" edition at shelfmarks: Cup 938/111 & YC.1994.b.4261.

REFLECTION ON THE REVOLUTION in France 1968. Edited by Charles Posner. Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, 1970. 8vo. 318 pp. Suppressed for having a "print error." SS.Cup.13.b.2.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at shelfmark X.709/10682.

REMEY, Charles Mason. – BAHA'I REMINISCENCES. Diary Letters and Other Documents Vols. 1-51. [Washington, 1938.] Typewritten, some MS. corrections. - Photographs and other items tipped in. - Each part signed by the Author on the titlepage. No reason for suppression provided. SS.CUP 6.a (vols. 1-18) & SS.6.a for the balance.

– The documents have been relocated to shelfmark RF.2004.b.47. A further 12 volumes or parts, catalogued "Washington, 1946-48," are shelved at: 4506.k.4. There is no evidence that these were ever in the SS.

SMITH, James, of Hamilton Crescent School, Glasgow. – Examination Papers in Applied Mechanics. Compiled by J. Smith. Glasgow: House of Grant, 1963. 8vo. Suppressed as "imperfect" for lacking "exam paper 63H-3-6." SS.Cup.13.b.3.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue of a presumably corrected copy at shelfmark X.629/20.

SUSMAN, Bernard. – Questions and Answers on Contracts. London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1930. 8vo. iii. 134. Part of the Q. and A. Series. "Withdrawn by publisher." SS.A.380.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at shelfmark: W.P.3450/6.

TACITUS, Publius Cornelius. – Cofiant Agricola, Llywodraethwr Prydain. Cyfieithiad gan A. O. Morris. Rhagymadrodd a nodiadau gan J. Ellis Jones. Golygwyd ar run Pwyllgor Adran Glasurol Urdd Graddedigion Prifysgol Cymru gan D. Ellis Evans. Caerdydd: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1974. 8vo. xv, 250 pp. pl. VIII; illus., maps. Suppressed for having a "print error," and noted as having a "Replacement copy sent 27 March 1975." SS.14.a.25.

– What must presumably be the replacement copy (dated 1975) is in the General Catalogue at shelfmark: X.809/21066.

THOMAS, afterwards BULMER-THOMAS, Ivor. – Our Lord Birkenhead. An Oxford appreciation. Putnam: London & New York, 1930. 8vo. pp. xiv. 207. "Withdrawn by publisher." SS.A379.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at shelfmark 010825.de.68.

THOMAS [More], Saint, Lord High Chancellor of England. The Life of Sir Thomas More. Edited by T. Stapleton and E. Reynolds. [?London:]London: Burns & Oates, 1996. Suppressed for having a "print error." SS.12.c74.

– There is a work called The Life and Illustrious Martyrdom of Sir Thomas More edited by Thomas Stapleton and E. E. Reynolds in the British Library. The place and date of publication is given in the catalogue entry as 'Fordham, 1984, 1966' and the shelfmark as: DSC 93/02986.

TO EACH THEIR OWN. An anthology of the unrecorded poetry of the ordinary people of the Gravesend and Dartford areas of North Kent, compiled by Len Pittendrigh & illustrations by Molly Sharp. Dartford: RPR, c. 1986. 8vo. iv. 147 pp. ill. Suppressed for a "print error." "Stamped." SS.Cup.15.28.

– There is a copy in the General Catalogue at shelfmark: YC.1987.a.10223 .

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The following typewritten paragraphs were added to the original MS. by G. Legman:

Note: This list was supplied me by H. Thomas, Esq., Keeper, Department of Printed Books, British Museum, as noted in his letter of 12.iv.[19]45–without any stated restriction. The copy received (a carbon), and letter, sent by me to Dr. E. J. Dingwall, in August 1962, for preservation with the copy of Reade/Rose's Registrum Librorum Prohibitorum annotated by Dr. Dingwall (P.C. 29. a. 76, 2 volumes. [Ms. note in right margin: He copied & returned.]

Query: What is the meaning of the word "Extracts" at the end of this list, and is the list a complete showing of the "S.S." collection? To be observed that the highest call-numbers shown (at Inne and Maire) are SS. A. 426 and SS. B. 106, implying [?] at least 532 numbers in all, not counting those in SS. C. and SS. D. There are only four works noted in SS. C.: C. 1 (Mutua), C. 9 (Freethinker), C. 11 (Crawford), and C. 64 (Robertson); and only a single work noted in SS. D., numbered SS. D. 98, (at Jordan). Does this imply the existence of 97 other works in SS. D. -? As there are only about 100 works in the present list, of the 532 or more implied to exist, what and where are the lacking numbers? Also, the most recent date in this list is at Jackson (1942). Where is the original catalogue preserved, who is charged with the adding of items to it, and what further items have been added since 1942/45? [In Ms.: Where are the books preserved?]