Library Illustrative of Social Progress: Exhibition of Famale Flagellants in the Modest and Incontinent World (Parts One and Two); Lady Bumtickler's Revels; A Treatise of the Use of Flogging in Venereal Affairs; Madame Birchini's Dance; Sublime of Flagellation; Fashionable Lectures - 7 volumes

Publisher not identified, No date (actual year of this set's publication not known). Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. 67; 84; 106; 83; 57; 54; 120pp. Small octavos [21 cm]. Volume 7 is a duodecimo [19.5 cm]. 1/4 white cloth with gray paper over boards. Extremities moderately bumped and lightly soiled. Endpapers with areas of darkening. Text block of volume 7 cracked a couple of times. Seven tracts on flagellation (flogging). The Library Illustrative of Social Progress was a series of books dealing with erotica and published by John Camden Hotten circa 1872. John Camden Hotten claimed that his series of flagellation reprints had been taken from Henry Thomas Buckle's collection, but that was untrue, as reported by Henry Spencer Ashbee. Ashbee claims that the books were actually reprinted from a collection of books that were in his collection.