Author: MELLY, GEORGE
Title: Great Lovers
Description: London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. 0224019422. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0224019422. Illustrated by Walter Dorin. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, brown endpapers. 4to. 47 pp. Illustrated with 20 full-color, full-page paintings by Walter Dorin. This is an unmarked copy, clean, tight and square. The dust jacket, now in mylar, has one small knick on the rear panel, else fine. FINE/NEAR FINE. This book was published to accompany an exhibiton of Walter Dorin's paintings at the Portal Gallery in London during October 1981. "The great lovers and this book fall into several categories: the Royal, the Powerful, the Deviant, the Criminal." They include Edward VII and Lillie Langtry; Queen Victoria and John Brown; Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, Antony and Cleopatra; Napoleon and Josephine, Bonnie and Clyde; Tristram and Iseult the Fair; Dante and Beatrice; and many others.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0224019422 Manners Customs; Illustrated Books Books; Sexuality; Sex; Erotica; Paintings Illustrated Books Erotica


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