Playboy After Hours
November, 1964
On our recommended reading list for a long winter's night are the following 18th and 19th Century erotic tomes, just a few of the many thousands noted in the recently republished Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a 1600-page bibliography of what the French fondly call curiosa. (The Index was compiled by one Henry Spencer Ashbee, Victorian merchant-bibliophile, who in his lifetime put together the greatest collection of English-language pornography ever assembled, now the property of the British Museu...
