By Richard Payne Knight
London   Privately Printed
8" by 6.5" xvi, 254pp
A smartly bound limited edition copy of Robert Payne Knight's controversial work on the Greek God Priapus.
By Richard Payne Knight

1894 A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and its Connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients. To Which is Added an Essay on the Worship of the Generative Powers During the Middle Ages of Western Europe

London   Privately Printed
8" by 6.5" xvi, 254pp
A smartly bound limited edition copy of Robert Payne Knight's controversial work on the Greek God Priapus.
£420.00
: 1kgs / : 643P42

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Illustrated, Leather Binding, Limited Edition

A limited edition work, limited to six hundred and seventy five copies, of which this is numbered two hundred and eighty three. Two essays on the fertility worship of the Greek God Priapus. Priapus was the Greek God of fertility, male genitalia, protector of livestock, fruit plants, and gardens. This work shocked the public when it was published, to the result that the author himself tried to suppress the book. Illustrated with forty plates. Written by Richard Payne Knight. Knight was a classical scholar and numismatist. This was his first work. Collated, complete.

Condition

In a half morocco binding with cloth to the boards. Externally, smart. A little wear to the spine label. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.

Near Fine

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