Henry Spencer Ashbee (21 April 1834 – 29 July 1900) was a book collector, writer and bibliographer. He is notable for his massive, clandestine three-volume...

Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee (2001, ISBN 0-571-19619-5) provided a detailed review of circumstantial evidence arguing that Ashbee wrote My Secret...

known for his sapphic illustrations. Prolific erotica collector Henry Spencer Ashbee commissioned Avril to design a bookplate for him. Avril worked with...

Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834–1900), English merchant, book collector, writer, and bibliographer Ian Ashbee (born 1976), English footballer Paul Ashbee (1918–2009)...

pseudonym Rosa Coote and published by William Dugdale in London in 1876. Henry Spencer Ashbee catalogues it with the comment that "the numerous flagellations,...

British Library "Rare Books", including Fraxi, Pisanus (pseudonym of Henry Spencer Ashbee) (1877) "Index Librorum Prohibitorum" (Index of Forbidden Books)...

volumes during the years 1873–1876 and published by William Lazenby. Henry Spencer Ashbee discusses this novel in one of his bibliographies of erotic literature...

the author's own private archive, is provided by Victorian writer Henry Spencer Ashbee, using the pseudonym "Pisanus Fraxi", in his bibliographical trilogy...

"Letters to a Lady Friend" or "Miss Coote's Confession" in The Pearl. Henry Spencer Ashbee writes of The Convent School that "The book is not altogether badly...

Henry Spencer Ashbee (1969) Index of Forbidden Books. Sphere; p. 300 Henry Spencer Ashbee (1969) Index of Forbidden Books. Sphere; pp. 299-301 Henry Spencer...

William Ward, or by John Raphael Smith, which are described by Henry Spencer Ashbee ('Pisanus Fraxi') in Catena Librorum Tacendorum (1885), the third...

Rutgers University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8135-2197-1, pp. 585–586 Ashbee, Henry Spencer Ashbee (aka "Pisanus Fraxi") (1969) Index of Forbidden Books (written...

now a suburb. He was the first child and only son of businessman Henry Spencer Ashbee, the senior partner in the London branch of the firm of Charles Lavy...

the library of Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862) but Henry Spencer Ashbee counterclaimed that they were in fact from his collection. Ashbee lists: Heinrich...

Hotten claimed to have found them in the library of Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862) but Henry Spencer Ashbee claimed that they were in fact from his collection...

She referred to it as a "chevalet". According to the account of Henry Spencer Ashbee: A notorious machine was invented for Mrs Berkley to flog gentlemen...

etchings and drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, based upon the research of Henry Spencer Ashbee published in his three-volume bibliography of curious and uncommon...

anticlerical account of the seduction of a nun by a Jesuit priest. Henry Spencer Ashbee suggests that it is based on an historical incident in Toulon in...

author of Emmanuelle Vanessa Duriès, author of Le lien Nancy Friday Henry Spencer Ashbee, author of My Secret Life Frank Harris, multiple-volume memoir My...

genteel young ladies are kidnapped, humiliated, and flagellated. Henry Spencer Ashbee describes it as "coldly cruel and unblushingly indecent"; Bloch describes...

Campbell", worked for the publisher William Dugdale. According to Henry Spencer Ashbee, Reddie was self-taught and viewed his works from a philosophical...

Field. Yet there are also explicitly sexual works, as compiled in Henry Spencer Ashbee's Forbidden Books of the Victorians, in which the books describe sex...

1879) was a 19th-century English author. Potter was a friend of Henry Spencer Ashbee, a merchant, bibliographer, bibliophile, authority on the life and...

what takes place there. The Victorian pornographic bibliographer Henry Spencer Ashbee comments that: "The scenes depicted, many of which are doubtless...

Librorum Tacendorum, after giving a one-page summary of the novel, Henry Spencer Ashbee concludes that "The book is very obscene, and possesses no literary...

works). Henry Spencer Ashbee described it as "very ordinary and insipid", expressing surprise at its frequent reprinting. Ashbee, Henry Spencer (2007)...

are working on is actually based on bibliographies published by Henry Spencer Ashbee, under the pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi, in the late 1870s. Waters makes...

taken from Buckle's collection, but this was untrue, as reported by Henry Spencer Ashbee. On 1 April 1859, Buckle's mother died. Shortly after, under the...

1777) but it is not in the list of Henry Spencer Ashbee. The Betuliad, a manuscript in the British Library from Ashbee's bequest, is identical to The Rodiad...

poet Antonio Machado, the artist Salvador Dalí, the bibliographer Henry Spencer Ashbee, the filmmaker Luis Buñuel. and particularly his work on the poet...