{"product_id":"a-complete-guide-to-forbidden-books","title":"A Complete Guide to Forbidden Books","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAn encyclopedia of erotica, assembled by a Victorian bibliomaniac.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eBorn in 1834, Henry Spencer Ashbee was a wealthy London oil merchant who channelled his fortune into knowledge – a quest that led him to the forbidden erotica traded “under the counter” in Victorian gentlemen’s clubs. Behind the locked doors of his Bedford Square mansion he built a secret library of thousands – shared only with a trusted circle of collectors. Fussy, exhaustive, and deliciously verbose in true Victorian style, his notes on each item in this contraband collection are gathered in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThe Complete Guide to Forbidden Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eOriginally published in 1877, under the pseudonym ‘Pisanus Fraxi’, this erotic bibliography was housed in rather austere hardback form until the 1966 publication of the Brandon House Library Edition, turning a Victorian curiosity into a sixties pulp paperback. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jouissance","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56997530599805,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/6054\/9167\/files\/BookshopThumbnails_5.png?v=1758640956","url":"https:\/\/shop.jouissanceparfums.com\/products\/a-complete-guide-to-forbidden-books","provider":"Jouissance","version":"1.0","type":"link"}