2020 (#23) – Book History Unbound https://sharpweb.org/book-history-unbound Sun, 21 Apr 2024 19:28:11 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://sharpweb.org/book-history-unbound/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SHARP_Logo_small-150x150.jpg 2020 (#23) – Book History Unbound https://sharpweb.org/book-history-unbound 32 32 “The Lost Erotica of James West”: Additional Material https://sharpweb.org/book-history-unbound/2020/spedding/ Mon, 16 Nov 2020 16:13:41 +0000 https://sharpweb.org/book-history-unbound/?p=250 Patrick Spedding’s article “The Lost Erotica of James West” in Book History 23 (2020) offers a close analysis of the significant erotica in the library assembled by James West (1703–72) and sold at auction in 1773. Dr. Spedding is Head of Literary Studies at Monash University and associate-director of the Centre for the Book. He can be reached at patrick.spedding@monash.edu.

A Selection of the Erotica Owned by James West, as Recorded in the Bibliotheca Westiana [PDF]

Annotations to Lot 1110 of the Second Sale Catalogue [PDF]

Cite this article:
Patrick Spedding, ”The Lost Erotica of James West’: Additional Material,” Book History Unbound (2020), https://sharpweb.org/book-history-unbound/2020/spedding/.

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