A discourse on the worship of Priapus, and its connection with the mystic theology of the ancients / by Richard Payne Knight. To which is added an essay on the worship of the generative powers during the Middle Ages of western Europe.

Author/creator Knight, Richard Payne author.
Format Electronic
EditionA new edition.
Publication[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1865]
ManufactureLondon : Privately printed, 1865.
Description1 online resource (xvi, 254 pages, 40 leaves of plates) : illustrations.
Supplemental ContentGale, Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Supplemental ContentGale, Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
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SeriesArchives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century. UNAUTHORIZED
General noteHalf title: Two essays on the worship of Priapus.
General note"Privately printed."
General note"125 copies only, of which 6 on large paper."--H. S. Ashbee. Index librorum prohibitorum, 1877, p. 6.
General noteThe 1st essay is reprinted with the other matter with which it was published in 1786 under title: An account of the remains of the worship of Priapus ... in two letters, one from Sir William Hamilton ... and the other from a person residing at Isernia; to which is added, A discourse on the worship of Priapus ...
General noteThe 2d essay was written by Thomas Wright, assisted by J. E. Tennent and George Witt. Cf. Ashbee, p. 9. It is entitled: On the worship of the generative powers during the Middle Ages of werstern Europe.
General noteIncludes index.
General noteReproduction of the originals from New York Academy of Medicine.
Other titleOn the worship of the generative powers during the Middle Ages of western Europe.

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