Erotika Biblion Society
Illustration — The Autobiography of a Flea, Edward Avery, cover of 1901. The Erotika Biblion Society was a pornographic publishing imprint in Sheffield formed by Harry Sidney Nichols and Leonard Smithers around 1886, with their first publication appearing in 1888. In 1891 both moved to London.
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Erotika Biblion Society
The Erotica Biblion Society of London and New York · Scanned by user n-w · Public domain
- Founded
- 1888.
- Founder
- Harry Sidney Nichols and Leonard Smithers.
- Headquarters
- London.
- Dissolved
- 1907.
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Illustration — The Autobiography of a Flea, Edward Avery, cover of 1901. The Erotika Biblion Society was a pornographic publishing imprint in Sheffield formed by Harry Sidney Nichols and Leonard Smithers around 1886, with their first publication appearing in 1888. In 1891 both moved to London.
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1888
Erotika Biblion Society established.
1888
Erotika Biblion Society is recorded from 1888.
1888
Erotika Biblion Society was established or created on 1 January 1888.
1907
Erotika Biblion Society ceased.
1907
Erotika Biblion Society was dissolved or ceased in 1907.
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They formed their name from the nonfiction treatise of the same name, Erotika Biblion (1783), published in Paris before the French Revolution, under the penmanship of the Comte de Mirabeau. One of their most notable publications was Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal, an anonymous product of several authors in which it is speculated that Oscar Wilde collaborated. The venture ended in 1907, after the death of Smithers.
It is associated with United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The record gives 1888 as its date of establishment or first appearance. Activity is recorded as ending in 1907. Its recorded founders are Harry Sidney Nichols and Leonard Smithers. Its recorded seat is London.
• VOISENON, [Claude-Henri de Fusée] Abbé de. Fairy Tales. Translated by R. B. Douglas. Illustrated With and Etched Frontispiece by Will Rothenstein. Athens [London] 1895. • Full Bibliography listed in: Steven Halliwell, The Erotika Biblion Society (The Rivendale Press, 2025).
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- 1.Not to be confused with the Erotica Biblion Society of London and New York, a separate publisher with a slightly different spelling.
- 2.Mirabeau, Honoré. Erotika Biblion. Chez tous les Libraries. 1998.
- 3.Nelson (2000) p.203
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