The Library Illustrative of Social Progress
The Library Illustrative of Social Progress was a series of pornographic books published by John Camden Hotten around 1872. They were mainly reprints of eighteenth-century pornographic works on flagellation. Hotten claimed to have found them in the library of Henry Thomas Buckle but Henry Spencer Ashbee counterclaimed that they were in fact from his collection.
Titles
Ashbee lists:- Heinrich Meibom, De Flagorum Usu in re Medica et Venera Exhibition of Female Flagellants: describing flagellation, mainly of women by women, described in a theatrical, fetishistic styleFashionable Lectures: on the theme of flagellation by dominant women in positions of authorityFemale Flagellants Lady Bumtickler's Revels: comic opera on the joys of flagellationMadame Birchini's Dance: a long poem in which the heroine cures a man of impotence by flagellationThe Sublime of Flagellation
- ''The Rodiad''