THE PEARL, A Monthly Journal of Facetiæ and Voluptuous Reading, Volume 5
The publisher, editor, and part-author, William Lazenby, announced as "without exception, the grandest and best erotic work ever published in the English language," contains in truth a very vast amount of "voluptuous reading." He expresses the hope that when "the modest little Pearl comes under the snouts of the moral and hypocritical swine of the world, they may not trample it under foot, and feel disposed to rend the publisher, but that a few will become subscribers on the quiet." Its contents consists of Poetry, Facetia, and Tales. The first two items could be dismissed with the remark that they are always coarse and bawdy, sometimes humorous, never really witty. The most important Tales are: 'Lady Pokingham, or They All Do it;' 'Miss Coolers Confession, or the Voluptuous Experiences of an Old Maid, ' a series of flagellation scenes, the heroine being grand-daughter of "the celebrated Indian General, Sir Eyre Coote, almost as well-known for his eighteen-penny fiasco with the Bluecoat Boys as for his services to Hon. E. I. Company; 'Sub-Umbra, or Sport Among the She-Noodles, ' a most insipid story, in which flagellation is again the leading feature; 'La Rose D'Amour, or the Adventures of a Gentleman in Search of Pleasure; 'My Grandmothers Tale, or May's Account of Her Introduction to the Art of Love, ' in which there are, a few fairly good scenes; 'Flunkeyania, or Belgravian Morals, ' a chain of low, commonplace adventures. The object of the writers of the above tales for they are certainly not all by one hand-would seem to be to cluster together the greatest amount of filth possible, unrelieved by a sparkle of wit. Scenes follow fast upon each other as cruel and as crapulous as any to be found in 'Justine' or 'La Philosophie dans le Boudoir, ' and, it must be owned, far more pernicious, for the enormities in those works are generally enacted in unfrequented forests, in imaginary chateaux, in unknown convents..
-"Catena Librorum Tacendorum" by Henry Spencer Ashbee
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THE PEARL, A Monthly Journal of Facetiæ and Voluptuous Reading, Volume 5
The publisher, editor, and part-author, William Lazenby, announced as "without exception, the grandest and best erotic work ever published in the English language," contains in truth a very vast amount of "voluptuous reading." He expresses the hope that when "the modest little Pearl comes under the snouts of the moral and hypocritical swine of the world, they may not trample it under foot, and feel disposed to rend the publisher, but that a few will become subscribers on the quiet." Its contents consists of Poetry, Facetia, and Tales. The first two items could be dismissed with the remark that they are always coarse and bawdy, sometimes humorous, never really witty. The most important Tales are: 'Lady Pokingham, or They All Do it;' 'Miss Coolers Confession, or the Voluptuous Experiences of an Old Maid, ' a series of flagellation scenes, the heroine being grand-daughter of "the celebrated Indian General, Sir Eyre Coote, almost as well-known for his eighteen-penny fiasco with the Bluecoat Boys as for his services to Hon. E. I. Company; 'Sub-Umbra, or Sport Among the She-Noodles, ' a most insipid story, in which flagellation is again the leading feature; 'La Rose D'Amour, or the Adventures of a Gentleman in Search of Pleasure; 'My Grandmothers Tale, or May's Account of Her Introduction to the Art of Love, ' in which there are, a few fairly good scenes; 'Flunkeyania, or Belgravian Morals, ' a chain of low, commonplace adventures. The object of the writers of the above tales for they are certainly not all by one hand-would seem to be to cluster together the greatest amount of filth possible, unrelieved by a sparkle of wit. Scenes follow fast upon each other as cruel and as crapulous as any to be found in 'Justine' or 'La Philosophie dans le Boudoir, ' and, it must be owned, far more pernicious, for the enormities in those works are generally enacted in unfrequented forests, in imaginary chateaux, in unknown convents..
-"Catena Librorum Tacendorum" by Henry Spencer Ashbee
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THE PEARL, A Monthly Journal of Facetiæ and Voluptuous Reading, Volume 5

THE PEARL, A Monthly Journal of Facetiæ and Voluptuous Reading, Volume 5

THE PEARL, A Monthly Journal of Facetiæ and Voluptuous Reading, Volume 5

THE PEARL, A Monthly Journal of Facetiæ and Voluptuous Reading, Volume 5

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The publisher, editor, and part-author, William Lazenby, announced as "without exception, the grandest and best erotic work ever published in the English language," contains in truth a very vast amount of "voluptuous reading." He expresses the hope that when "the modest little Pearl comes under the snouts of the moral and hypocritical swine of the world, they may not trample it under foot, and feel disposed to rend the publisher, but that a few will become subscribers on the quiet." Its contents consists of Poetry, Facetia, and Tales. The first two items could be dismissed with the remark that they are always coarse and bawdy, sometimes humorous, never really witty. The most important Tales are: 'Lady Pokingham, or They All Do it;' 'Miss Coolers Confession, or the Voluptuous Experiences of an Old Maid, ' a series of flagellation scenes, the heroine being grand-daughter of "the celebrated Indian General, Sir Eyre Coote, almost as well-known for his eighteen-penny fiasco with the Bluecoat Boys as for his services to Hon. E. I. Company; 'Sub-Umbra, or Sport Among the She-Noodles, ' a most insipid story, in which flagellation is again the leading feature; 'La Rose D'Amour, or the Adventures of a Gentleman in Search of Pleasure; 'My Grandmothers Tale, or May's Account of Her Introduction to the Art of Love, ' in which there are, a few fairly good scenes; 'Flunkeyania, or Belgravian Morals, ' a chain of low, commonplace adventures. The object of the writers of the above tales for they are certainly not all by one hand-would seem to be to cluster together the greatest amount of filth possible, unrelieved by a sparkle of wit. Scenes follow fast upon each other as cruel and as crapulous as any to be found in 'Justine' or 'La Philosophie dans le Boudoir, ' and, it must be owned, far more pernicious, for the enormities in those works are generally enacted in unfrequented forests, in imaginary chateaux, in unknown convents..
-"Catena Librorum Tacendorum" by Henry Spencer Ashbee

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781987001037
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date: 09/30/2018
Pages: 44
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.11(d)

About the Author

William Lazenby (died c. 1888) was an English publisher of pornography active in the 1870s and 1880s. He used the aliases Duncan Cameron and Thomas Judd. His notable publications include magazines The Pearl, which published poems thought to have been written by Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Oyster, The Boudoir and The Cremorne He also published such books as 'The Romance of Lust, 'Randiana, or Excitable Tales,' 'The Birchen Bouquet' (1881), 'The Romance of Chastisement' (1883), 'The Pleasures of Cruelty' (1886) and 'The Sins of the Cities of the Plain.' He was an associate of Edward Avery and Leonard Smithers. He was prosecuted in 1871 and again in 1881.
After the Post Office (Protection) Act 1884, Lazenby together with other publishers such as Edward Avery, Charles Carrington, and Harry Sidney Nichols moved much of their business to Paris to sell in the United Kingdom by mail order.
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