Item #101729 A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and its Connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients. To Which is Added an Essay on the Worship of the Generative Powers During the Middle Ages of Western Europe [Limited Edition]. Richard Payne Knight.

A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and its Connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients. To Which is Added an Essay on the Worship of the Generative Powers During the Middle Ages of Western Europe [Limited Edition]

UK: Charles Skilton, ( 1952). Limited edition, octavo, original half-leather binding, blue morocco with gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, b&w plates, pp xvi, 254 plus 40 b&w plates. Limited edition: number 184 of 675 numbered copies. Publisher not stated (Charles Skilton. 1952). Some marking rear board otherwise clean, very good condition.

A limited edition reprint of the privately printed 1865 edition. The book, considered shocking when first published for the Dilettanti Society in 1786, examined ancient phallic cults and the continuing persistence of Pagan images and ideas. Item #101729

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