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...
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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...
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known for his sapphic illustrations. Prolific erotica collector Henry Spencer Ashbee commissioned Avril to design a bookplate for him. Avril worked with...
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Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834–1900), English merchant, book collector, writer, and bibliographer Ian Ashbee (born 1976), English footballer Paul Ashbee (1918–2009)...
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pseudonym Rosa Coote and published by William Dugdale in London in 1876. Henry Spencer Ashbee catalogues it with the comment that "the numerous flagellations,...
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British Library "Rare Books", including Fraxi, Pisanus (pseudonym of Henry Spencer Ashbee) (1877) "Index Librorum Prohibitorum" (Index of Forbidden Books)...
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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...
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the author's own private archive, is provided by Victorian writer Henry Spencer Ashbee, using the pseudonym "Pisanus Fraxi", in his bibliographical trilogy...
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"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...
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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...
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William Ward, or by John Raphael Smith, which are described by Henry Spencer Ashbee ('Pisanus Fraxi') in Catena Librorum Tacendorum (1885), the third...
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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...
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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...
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the library of Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862) but Henry Spencer Ashbee counterclaimed that they were in fact from his collection. Ashbee lists: Heinrich...
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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...
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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...
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etchings and drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, based upon the research of Henry Spencer Ashbee published in his three-volume bibliography of curious and uncommon...
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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...
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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...
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genteel young ladies are kidnapped, humiliated, and flagellated. Henry Spencer Ashbee describes it as "coldly cruel and unblushingly indecent"; Bloch describes...
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Campbell", worked for the publisher William Dugdale. According to Henry Spencer Ashbee, Reddie was self-taught and viewed his works from a philosophical...
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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...
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1879) was a 19th-century English author. Potter was a friend of Henry Spencer Ashbee, a merchant, bibliographer, bibliophile, authority on the life and...
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what takes place there. The Victorian pornographic bibliographer Henry Spencer Ashbee comments that: "The scenes depicted, many of which are doubtless...
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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...
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works). Henry Spencer Ashbee described it as "very ordinary and insipid", expressing surprise at its frequent reprinting. Ashbee, Henry Spencer (2007)...
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are working on is actually based on bibliographies published by Henry Spencer Ashbee, under the pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi, in the late 1870s. Waters makes...
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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...
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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...
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poet Antonio Machado, the artist Salvador Dalí, the bibliographer Henry Spencer Ashbee, the filmmaker Luis Buñuel. and particularly his work on the poet...
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