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.
1865
BL460 .K59 1865 Rare Bk Coll
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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.
Alternate Title
On the worship of the generative powers during the Middle Ages of western Europe.
Edition
A new edition.
Published
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1865]
Printed
London : Privately printed, 1865.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 254 pages, 40 leaves of plates) : illustrations.
Call Number
BL460 .K59 1865 Rare Bk Coll
Dewey Decimal Classification
291/.3
Note
Half title: Two essays on the worship of Priapus.
"Privately printed."
"125 copies only, of which 6 on large paper."--H. S. Ashbee. Index librorum prohibitorum, 1877, p. 6.
The 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 ...
The 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.
Includes index.
Reproduction of the originals from New York Academy of Medicine.
"Privately printed."
"125 copies only, of which 6 on large paper."--H. S. Ashbee. Index librorum prohibitorum, 1877, p. 6.
The 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 ...
The 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.
Includes index.
Reproduction of the originals from New York Academy of Medicine.
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Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.
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Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877. On the worship of the generative powers during the Middle Ages of western Europe. 1865.
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