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Anonymous [sometimes attrib. to Marquis de Sade] The Lascivious Hypocrite; or, The Triumphs of Vice. [Paris], Done at Cythera by the Keeper of the Temple, [ca 1930].
€ 85.00
Papercovers, 73pp.,12x17.5cm., in very good condition. Rare.
Itemnummer 20655
English translation/adaptation of the French erotic work Le Tartuffe Libertin ou le triomphe du vice. The book circulated as a clandestine erotic publication using false eighteenth-century imprints and pseudonymous publication data, a common practice in underground erotic publishing. The novel presents a libertine and explicitly erotic narrative centred on seduction, deception, and moral hypocrisy. Framed within decadent and anti-clerical traditions of underground nineteenth-century erotica, the text follows aristocratic and libertine characters through episodes of manipulation, sexual excess, and social satire. The work combines pornographic fiction with elements of parody and philosophical libertinism. The publication belongs to the tradition of clandestine English-language erotica distributed privately through bibliophile circles and restricted presses. Presented as a ?free translation? of the French Le Tartuffe Libertin, the work adapts earlier libertine literature into an English decadent style associated with fin-de-siècle underground publishing. The narrative structure combines episodic erotic scenes with satire on virtue, religion, and bourgeois morality. Later twentieth-century reprints by the Erotica Biblion Society reinforced the book?s status as a collectible curiosity within the history of prohibited and privately circulated literature.






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