ANTI CATHOLICA A Compleat History of the Intrigues of Pries

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(ANTI-CATHOLICA.) A Compleat History of the Intrigues of Priests and Nuns [with Anthony Egan, Rome A Great Custom-House for Sin]. Engraved frontispiece and one plate (of 4). [8], 256; [8], 29, [11] pages. 2 parts in one volume. 12mo, contemporary sheep, heavily worn, covers detached. London: Richard Adams, 1746

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scarce collection of tales of alleged catholic clerical depravity drawn from various sources, together with a retitled reprint of Anthony Egan''s 1673 exposé of indulgences, The Book of Rates now used in the Sin Custom-House of Rome. For a detailed discussion of 18th-century literature describing the sexual activities of priests, monks, nuns, and penitents, and its influence on the development of subsequent English pornography, see Julie Peakman, "Anti-Catholic Erotica," in her Mighty Lewd Books, pages 126-60 (citing this work on page 146). Ashbee, Centuria librorum absconditorum, pages 423-25; ESTC locates only the National Library of Wales copy of this edition, and only the UCLA copy of the 1732 edition, the sole earlier one extant.