Patrick J. Kearney

A Catalogue of theBooks and Journalism
Of

Peter Fryer(1927 - 2006)

Scissors & Paste Bibliographies
Santa Rosa, CA 95409
2019

Introductory Note

Despite the political slant of what follows – a marked departure from the other pages on my site – I have to confess that its
compilation has been one of my more pleasurable undertakings
for Scissors & Paste Bibliographies.
It’s not altogether surprising that the first of Peter’s books I
encountered was Private Case–Public Scandal, to which my attention had been drawn by the late Gershon Legman. At 160
pages it’s not a long book, and I read it, appropriately, in the
British Library, at one sitting. Despite its brevity, I was impressed by the amount of information Peter had managed toinclude. Furthermore it was reliable and written with wit and afine sense of irony, qualities not commonly associated withbooks dealing with erotic literature.
Private Case–Public Scandal was almost certainly the single
biggest factor in the decision made by the British Library toabandon a century of secrecy and finally include their erotica in
the General Catalogue. It was also what spurred me to try andcatalogue their collection, a project that resulted about ten years
later with The Private Case (London: Jay Landesman, 1981).
Several other books touch on my interests and will be easily
recognized, but I have to say that Hungarian Tragedy, which I
was only able to read toward the end of 2001 (on a Socialist
website in Norway of all places), and the more recent Staying
Power, both proved to be extremely educational, and I havelittle doubt that Peter’s other books that I’ve yet to read will
prove of equal interest and value.
Peter’s initial reaction to my suggestion that I compile a catalogue of his works was not what might be called enthusiastic,2

but after I sent him a draft of what I was able to pull together
from the usual sources – the online catalogues of The British
Library, the Bibliothéque Nationale, the Kinsey Institute, &c. –he warmed to the idea, and the credit for much of the bibliography must more properly be given to him.
Entries are arranged chronologically by date of first publication, under five headings: Separately published works; Contributions to periodicals etc. (omitting writing published in daily
newspapers and, with four exceptions, in weeklies); Editions;
Translations; and Anthologies.
Patrick. J. Kearney3

I. Separately Published Works

1. Hull for Youth. Memorandum on the Hull Youth
Charter. [By Peter Fryer and Molly Davenport.] Hull:
Hull Young Communist League Club, [c. 1946]. 8vo.
pp. 8+[1]. Copy in Communist Party of Great Britain
archives.
The section on Education, pp. 3–4, was written by Molly Davenport, afterwards Rotheray.

2. Hungarian Tragedy. London: Dennis Dobson, 1956.
8vo. pp. 96. Plates and maps. BL: 9314.b.35.
On the rising in Hungary in 1956. Reprinted in 4.

3. Hungarian Tragedy. London: New Park, 1986. 8vo.
pp. 79. Maps. Copy in private collection.
4. Hungarian Tragedy and other writings on the1956 Hungarian Revolution. Introduction by Balázs
Nagy. London: Index Books, [c. 1997]. 8vo. pp.
xvi+192. Illustrations and maps. BL: YC.1998.a.1323.

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Includes reprints of a letter of resignation from the Daily Worker(published in that paper and in the Manchester Guardian on 16 November 1956) and of 2, 13, 50, 52, 54, 60, 61 and 65.

5. [Hungarian Tragedy.] Ungarische Tragödie. Translated by Hans Peter Schwarz. Cologne: Markus Verlag,
1957. 8vo. pp. 115. Illustrations. Copy in private collection.
6. [Hungarian Tragedy.] Biguk-ui ‘Hanggari’. Seoul:
Hapdong News Agency, 1957. 8vo. pp. 169+[1]. BL:
JPN.2001.a.494. OIOC.
7. [Hungarian Tragedy.] Ungarsk tragedie. Translatedby Eina J. Aass. Oslo: Bergendahls Forlag, 1957. 8vo.
pp. 120. Copy in private collection.
8. [Hungarian Tragedy.] La tragedia de Hungria.
Translated by Marta Newton. Buenos Aires: Indice,
1957. 8vo. pp. 112+[1]. Illustrations and maps. Copy
in private collection.
9. [Hungarian Tragedy.] La tragedia de Hungria.
Translated by Marta Newton. Buenos Aires: Ediciones
Antidoto, 1986. 8vo. pp. 112. Maps. Copy in private
collection.
10. [Hungarian Tragedy.] La tragedia Hungara. Havana:
La Asociación Cubana Pro-Democracia, [c. 1957]. 8vo.
pp. 96. Illustrations and maps. Copy in private collection.
11. [Hungarian Tragedy.] Tragedia Hungara. Translated
by Carlos F. Galan. [With notes by the Mexican publisher and other additional matter.] México, D.F.: Editorial Azteca, 1957. 8vo. pp. 142. Illustrations. Copy inprivate collection.

512. [Hungarian Tragedy.] Ungersk tragedi. Translated byJames Rüssel. Stockholm: Tidens Förlag, [c. 1957].
8vo. pp. 120. Copy in private collection.
13. [Hungarian Tragedy.] La Tragedia Ungherese.
Translated by Arturo Balboni. Rome: Ed. Opere
Nuove, 1957. Not seen, but listed in the Italian National Bibliography.
14. Hungary and the Communist Party. An appeal
against expulsion. London: Peter Fryer, 1957. 8vo. pp.
48. BL: 8140.ff.40.
Reprinted in 4.

15. Brighton and After. The 1957 Labour Party Conference and The Tasks of the Left. London: Peter Fryer,
1957. Unsigned. 8vo. pp. 16. A Newsletter Pamphlet.
BL: W.P.14858/8.
Reprinted from The Newsletter, I/23 (12 October 1957), pp 157–
61.

16. Defend the ETU! Against Fleet Street and King
Street. London: Peter Fryer, [1958]. 8vo. pp. 12. A
Newsletter pamphlet. BL: W.P.14858/1.
Reprinted from The Newsletter, I/32 (14 December 1957), pp.
255–9. The ETU was the Electrical Trades Union; the national
headquarters of the British Communist Party were situated in King
Street, Covent Garden, London.

17. Black the H-Bomb & the Rocket Bases! London:Peter Fryer, [1958]. Oblong 8vo. pp. 8. A Newsletter
pamphlet. BL: W.P.14858/4.
Reprinted from The Newsletter, II/42 (1 March 1958), pp. 61–3.

18. Black the H-Bomb & the Rocket Bases! Second
impression, [with revisions]. London: Peter Fryer,[1958]. Oblong 8vo. pp. 8. A Newsletter pamphlet. BL:
W.P.14858/5.
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19. The Newsletter Conference and the Communist
Party. Two Attacks by Dennis Goodwin, with replies
by Peter Fryer. London: The Newsletter, [1959]. 8vo.
pp. 31. A Newsletter pamphlet. BL: W.P.14858/8
Reprinted from The Newsletter, II/73 (18 October 1958), pp.
266–7; II/75 (1 November 1958), pp. 276–80.

20. The Battle for Socialism. London: Socialist Labour
League, 1959. 8vo. pp. viii+192. BL: 8140.i.27.
21. An open letter to members of the Socialist Labour League and other Marxists. London: Peter
Fryer, 1959. Foolscap. pp. 6. Reproduced from typewriting. Copy in private collection.
22. Oldest Ally. A portrait of Salazar’s Portugal. By Peter
Fryer and Patricia McGowan Pinheiro. London: Dennis Dobson, 1961. 8vo. pp. 280. Plates. BL:
10196.tt.10.

23. Oldest Ally. A portrait of Salazar’s Portugal. By Peter
Fryer and Patricia McGowan Pinheiro. Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981. 8vo. pp. 280. Plates.
Library of Congress: DP680 .F7 1981.
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24. [Oldest Ally.] El Portugal de Salazar. [With additional material.] By Peter Fryer and Patricia McGowan
Pinheiro. Translated by Ernesto Mendoza. Paris [Swiss
printed]: Ruedo ibérico, 1962. 8vo. pp. xiv+201.
Plates. Bibliothèque Nationale: 8- G- 17096 (1); BL:
08042.cc.46.
25. [Oldest Ally.] Le Portugal de Salazar. By Peter Fryer
and Patricia McGowan Pinheiro. Paris: Ruedo ibérico,[1963]. 8vo. pp. xiv+203. Plates. BL: 10494.b.18.
26. [Oldest Ally.] Salazarovo Portugalsko. By Peter
Fryer and Patricia McGowan Pinheirová. Translated byZdenek Hampl and Sylva Pavlíková. Prague: Nakladatelství politické literatury, 1965. 8vo. pp. 271+[2].
Plates. BL: X.708/1192.
27. Mrs Grundy. Studies in English prudery. London:
Dennis Dobson, 1963. 8vo. pp. 368. 32 pages of plates.
BL (2 copies): Cup. 700. cc. 11. – 2719.x.12947
28. Mrs Grundy. Studies in English prudery. New York:
London House & Maxwell, 1964. 8vo. pp. 368. Plates.
Library of Congress: DA115 .F7.
29. Mrs. Grundy, &c. London: Transworld Publishers,
1965. 8vo. pp. 414. Plates. No. BG7264 of the Corgi
paperbacks. BL: YC.1993.a.1698.
30. The Birth Controllers. London: Secker & Warburg,
1965. 8vo. pp. 384. 12 pages of plates. BL:
YC.1993.a.3520.
31. The Birth Controllers. New York: Stein and Day,
1966. 8vo. Plates. Copy in compiler’s collection is anundated second printing. Library of Congress: HQ766.F79 1966.
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32. The Birth Controllers. London: Transworld Publishers, 1967. 8vo. pp. 414. One of the Corgi paperbacks,
no. EG.7804. BL: YK.1993.a.5581.

33. Private Case – Public Scandal. London: Secker &Warburg, 1966. 8vo. pp. 160. BL: YC.1993.a.1441.
On the ‘Private Case’ collection of erotic books in the British Museum’s Department of Printed Books.

34. [Private Case – Public Scandal.] Secrets of the British
Museum. New York: Citadel Press, 1968. 8vo. pp.
160. Library of Congress: HQ454 .F73 1968.
35. British birth control ephemera, 1870–1947. A catalogue of the David Collis Collection compiled by Peter Fryer. Leicester: Barracuda Press, 1969. pp. 42, facsimiles. The Collis collections, no. 1. BL (2 copies):
2745.m.13. – 2745.m.15.
36. Staying Power. The History of Black People in Britain. London: Pluto Press, 1984. 8vo. pp. xiii+632. Published in both cloth and paperback editions. BL (29copies): X.529/65600. – HLR305.896. Pressmark forpaperback edition: 84/13234.

37. Staying Power. The History of Black People in Britain. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1984.
8vo. pp. xiii+632. Library of Congress: DA125.N4 F78
1984.
38. Crocodiles in the streets. A report on Latin America.
London. New Park [c. 1987]. 8vo. pp. 77. BL:
YC.1988.a.5266.
39. Black people in the British Empire. An introduction. London: Pluto Press, 1988. 8vo. pp. [174]. American distribution by Allen & Unwin. BL (2 copies):
YH.1989.a.151. – 88/24948.
40. Black people in the British Empire. An introduction. London: Pluto Press, 1989. 8vo. pp. [174]. BL:
YC.1990.a.191.
41. The Politics of British Black History. By Peter
Fryer and Julia Bush. Wellingborough: Wellingborough District Racial Equality Council, 1991. A4. pp.
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15. Illustrations. Facsimiles. Reproduced from typewriting. BL (2 copies): YK.1993.b.14886 – OPLG/7329.
The texts of talks given by the authors on 14 June 1990 at a public
meeting called by Wellingborough District Racial Equality Council.

42. Aspects of British Black History. London: Index
Books [c. 1993]. 8vo. pp. 56. BL: YK.1995.a.3134.
The revised and expanded text of a series of lectures given in the
Conway Hall, London, in May and June 1988.

43. Lucid, Vigorous and Brief. Advice to New Writers.
London: Index Books [c. 1993]. 8vo. pp. 48. BL:
YK.1994.a.11838.
44. Lucid, Vigorous and Brief. Advice to new writers.
Second edition, revised and expanded. London: Index
Books, 1998. pp. 82. BL: YC. 2001.a.14520.
45. The Politics of Windrush. [Edited by Clare Cowen.]

Index Books, in association with the Black Cultural Archives, the Movement for Socialism, and Leeds Independent Labour Network, [1999]. 8vo. pp. 72. Illustrations. Facsimiles. Map. BL: pressmark pending.
The edited text of a talk given at the Mandela Centre, Leeds, on 10
September 1998 and at Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton, on 20 November 1998, with the discussion at the latter meeting.

46. Rhythms of Resistance. African Musical Heritage inBrazil. London: Pluto Press, 2000. 8vo. pp. iv+267. Illustrations, maps. BL (2 copies): YC.2000.a.5809. –m00/47330.
47. Rhythms of Resistance. African Musical Heritage inBrazil. [Middletown, Conn.?]: Wesleyan University
Press; Hanover, NH: University Press of New England,11

2000. 8vo. pp. xiii+267. Illustrations, maps. Library ofCongress: ML3575.B7 F79 2000.

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II. Contribitions to Periodicals, &c.

48. Russell, Ayer, and Bourgeois Morality. The Marxist Quarterly, II/1 (January 1955), pp. 48–54.
Reviews of Bertrand Russell, Human Society in Ethics and Politics(London: Allen & Unwin, 1954) and A. J. Ayer, ‘On the Analysisof Moral Judgements’, in his Philosophical Essays (London: Macmillan, 1954), pp. 231–49 (this essay originally published in Horizon, XX/117, 1949).

49. Marxism versus the soothsayers. Labour Monthly,XXXVI/4 (April 1955), pp. 190–2.
Review of John Lewis, Marxism and the irrationalists (London:
Lawrence & Wishart, 1955).

50. What now in France? Labour Monthly, XXXVIII/3(March 1956), pp. 124–7.
51. The Hungarian Revolution. New Statesman andNation, LII/1314 (24 November 1956), p. 668.
Reprinted in 4.

52. Hammersmith and after. Labour Review, II/3
(May–June 1957), pp. 67–70. Unsigned.
An editorial on the British Communist Party’s 25th (Special) Congress (1957), held in Hammersmith Town Hall, London.

53. An Undelivered Speech. Labour Review, II/3
(May–June 1957), pp. 70–1.
The text of the speech that would have been delivered to the British
Communist Party’s 25th (Special) Congress (1957) if an appeal
against expulsion to the full Congress had been allowed. Reprinted
in 4.

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54. The Birth of Marxism. Labour Review, II/3 (May–
June 1957), pp. 94–5.
Review of Marx and Engels, The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Critique (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House; London: Lawrence & Wishart; 1956).

55. Hungary in retrospect. The New Reasoner, I/1(Summer 1957), pp. 71–7.
Reviews of: The Counter-Revolutionary Forces in the October
Events in Hungary ([Budapest]: Information Bureau of the Councilof Ministers of the Hungarian People’s Republic, [1957]); – BasilDavidson, What Really Happened in Hungary? A Personal Record(London: Union of Democratic Control, 1957); – George Mikes,
The Hungarian Revolution (London: André Deutsch, 1957); –Wictor Woroszylski, Diary of a Revolt: Budapest through Polish
Eyes, [translated by Michael Segal] (London: M. Segal and Clive K.
Jenkins, [1957]); – National Communism and Popular Revolt in

Eastern Europe: A Selection of Documents on Events in Poland andHungary, February–November 1956, edited by Paul E. Zinner(New York: Columbia University Press; London: Oxford University Press; 1956). Reprinted in 4.

56. The New Phase of the Stalinist Crisis. Labour Review, II/4 (July–August 1957), pp. 99–100. [Unsigned.]
An editorial.

57. Soviet Reality. Labour Review, II/5 (September–
October 1957), pp. 129–30. [Unsigned.]
An editorial.

58. Lenin as Philosopher. Labour Review, II/5 (September–October 1957), pp. 136–47.
Discusses a section, entitled ‘Questions of Theory’, of E. P. Thompson, ‘Socialist Humanism: An Epistle to the Philistines’, The New
Reasoner, I/1 (Summer 1957), pp. 132–5.

59. Labour and Leadership. Labour Review, III/1 (January–February 1958), pp. 1–4. [Unsigned.]14

An editorial.

60. An Unreasonable Reasoner. Labour Review, III/2(March–April 1958), pp. 34–6. [Unsigned.]
An editorial critical of E. P. Thompson’s refusal to discuss with
Trotskyists.

61. [Review of Edith Bone, Seven Years Solitary.] International Affairs, XXXIV/2 (April 1958), p. 207.
The book under review was published in London by Hamish Hamilton, 1957. Reprinted in 4.

62. The murder of Imre Nagy. Labour Review, III/3(May–June–July 1958), pp. 65-6. [Unsigned.]
Part of this editorial was written by Peter Fryer and part by Brian
Pearce. The portion written by the former is reprinted in 4. Imre
Nagy (1896–1958) was a Hungarian politician, appointed Prime
Minister of Hungary on two occasions. Nagy’s second term ended
when his non-Soviet-backed government was brought down bySoviet invasion in the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, resulting in Nagy’s execution on charges of treason two years later.

63. Freedom of the Individual. Labour Review, III/4(August–September 1958), pp. 119–25.
64. Sweep the racialists off the streets! The Newsletter,
II/67 (6 September 1958), pp. 229–30.
65. Rank and File on the Move. Labour Review, III/5(December 1958), pp. 129–31. [Unsigned.]
An editorial.

66. Best book yet on Hungary’s revolt. The Newsletter, III/86 (24 January 1959), pp. 28–9.
Review of Dora Scarlett, Window onto Hungary (Bradford:
Broadacre Books, 1959). Reprinted in 4, under the title ‘Window
onto Hungary’.

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67. The Challenge of the Socialist Labour League.
Labour Review, IV/1 (April–May 1959), pp. 1–4. Unsigned.
An editorial.

68. Marxists in Conference. Labour Review, IV/2
(July–August 1959), pp. 40–2.
On the 1959 founding conference of the Socialist Labour League.

69. Hungary: Lies among Legends. Twentieth Century, CLXXV/1031 (Autumn 1966), pp. 20–2.
70. Censorship at the British Museum: The ‘Private Case’& Other Mysteries. Encounter, XXVII/4 (October1966), pp. 68–77.
71. ‘To Deprave & Corrupt’. Encounter, XXVIII/3(March 1967), pp. 41–4.
On the attempted legal suppression of Herbert Selby, Jr, Last Exit
to Brooklyn (London: Calder & Boyars, 1966). Encounter is generally thought to have been bankrolled by the CIA.

72. A Map of The Underground: The Flower Power
Structure & London Scene. Encounter, XXIX/4 (October 1967), pp. 6–20.
73. [Untitled contribution]. In: Authors take sides on Vi-

etnam. Two questions on the war in Vietnam answeredby the authors of several nations. Edited by Cecil Woolf
and John Bagguley (London: Peter Owen, 1967), p. 27.
74. ‘Last Exit’ & the Law. Tracks, 3 (Spring 1968), pp.
3–6.
On the attempted legal suppression of Herbert Selby, Jr, Last Exit
to Brooklyn (London: Calder & Boyars, 1966).

75. Blimps with Little Red Flags.
XXXIII/4 (October 1969), pp. 80–6.
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Encounter,

Review of James Klugmann, History of the Communist Partyof Great Britain, vol. I: Formation and Early Years, 1919–1924(London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1968); vol. II: The General Strike(London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1969).

76. Wit and its poor relations. Times Literary Supplement, no. 3,538 (18 December 1969), p. 1,425. [Unsigned.]
Review of G. Legman, Rationale of the Dirty Joke. An analysis of
Sexual Humor. First series (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969).

77. Fringe press and naked emperor. In: The press wedeserve, edited by Richard Boston. (London:
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970), pp. 122–31.
78. The death of censorship. Times Literary Supplement, no. 3,651 (18 February 1972), p. 195.
79. Licensed limericks. New Humanist, XC/12 (April
1975), p. 410.
Review of The Limerick. 1700 examples, with notes variants andindex, edited by G. Legman (London: Jupiter Books, 1974).

80. [Review of John Miller Chernoff, African Rhythm
and African Sensibility]. Research in African Literatures, XIII/4 (Winter 1982), pp. 542–4.
The book under review was published in Chicago by the Universityof Chicago Press, 1979.

81. On the history of English racism. ‘Clio’: History
and Social Sciences Teachers’ Centre Review, VI/1
(Spring 1986), pp. 31–4.
82. Pseudo-scientific racism. In: Anti-racist Science
Teaching, edited by Dawn Gill and Les Levidow (London: Free Association Books, 1987), pp. 178–97.
An abridged excerpt from 36.

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83. The history of English racism - Part I [II]. The Ethical Record, XCIII/3 (March 1988), pp. 3–6; XCIII/4(April 1988), pp. 18–22.
Text of a lecture given to the South Place Ethical Society on 17
January 1988.

84. [Review of About Turn. The British Communist
Party and the Second World War.] Revolutionary
History, III/4 (Autumn 1991), pp. 32–3.
The book under review contained the verbatim record of meetingsof the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain
on 25 September and 2–3 October 1939. Edited by Francis Kingand George Matthews, and with an introduction by Monty Johnstone, it was published in London by Lawrence and Wishart, 1990.

85. Introduction. In: Harry Ratner, Reluctant Revolutionary. Memoirs of a Trotskyist 1936–1960(London: Socialist Platform, 1994), pp. v–viii.
86. Engels: A Man of His Time. In: The condition of
Britain: Essays on Frederick Engels, edited by John
Lea and Geoff Pilling (London and East Haven, Conn.:
Pluto Press, 1996), pp. 128–60.
87. Tom Kemp (1921–1993): What he wrote andhow he wrote it. [By] Peter Fryer and Michael Kemp.
In: History, economic history and the future of Marxism. Essays in Memory of Tom Kemp (1921–1993),
edited by Terry Brotherstone and Geoff Pilling (London: Porcupine Press, 1996), pp. 351–61.
Includes a ‘Selective bibliography of Tom Kemp’s writings’, pp.
353–9.

88. A workers’ paper and an evasive historian: Three
personal columns. Workers International Press, II/1–
2 (Winter 1997–98, Spring 1998), pp. 47–50.
Reprinted from Workers Press, 9 May 1987, 10 March 1990, and
20 May 1995. The third of these ‘personal columns’ was a review

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of Opening the Books: Essays on the Social and Cultural History of
British Communism (London and Boulder, Colo.: Pluto, 1995),
edited by Geoff Andrews, Nina Fishman, and Kevin Morgan. The‘evasive historian’ was Eric Hobsbawm, C.H.

89. The ‘discovery’ and appropriation of African music anddance. Race & Class, XXXIX/3 (January–March
1998), pp. 1–20.
90. Introduction. In: James D. Young, The World of C. L.
R. James: The Unfragmented Vision (Glasgow:
Clydeside Press, 1999), pp. 1–4.
91. Our Earliest Glimpse of West African Music. Race &Class, XLV/1 (July-September, 2003). pp. 105-10.
92. Archer, John Richard (1863–1932). In: The New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.)
93. Cuffay, William (1788–1870). In: The New Dictionaryof National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, forthcoming.)

19III. Editions

94. ACTON, William. Prostitution. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Peter Fryer. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968. 8vo. pp. 251. BL: YC.1993.a.
1151.
Acton’s Prostitution, considered in its moral, social & sanitary aspects, in London and other large cities: with proposals for the mitigation and prevention of its attendant evils, was first published at
London by John Churchill in 1857; the above was an abridgementof the second, greatly expanded edition: Prostitution, considered inits moral, social, and sanitary aspects, in London and other large cities and garrison towns: with proposals for the control and prevention of its attendant evils (London: John Churchill, 1870).

95. ACTON, William. Prostitution. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Peter Fryer. New York: Praeger, 1969. 8vo. pp. 251. Library of Congress: HQ186.A27 1969.
96. Forbidden books of the Victorians. Henry Spencer
Ashbee’s bibliographies of erotica abridged and edited,20

with an introduction and notes, by Peter Fryer. London: Odyssey Press, 1970. 8vo. pp. 239. BL: YC.1993.
b.3456.
Ashbee’s bibliographies, compiled as by Pisanus Fraxi, were: Index
librorum prohibitorum (1877), Centuria librorum absconditorum(1879), and Catena librorum tacendorum (1885). Privately printed,
they bore the shared subtitle: being Notes Bio- Biblio- Iconographical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books.

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IV. Translations

97. PEYREFITTE, Roger. – [La Nature du prince.] The
Prince’s Person. Translated by Peter Fryer. London:
Secker & Warburg, 1964. 8vo. pp. 175. BL (2 copies):
X.908/2391 – X.908/2983.
On the marriages of Vincent I, Duke of Mantua. The original was
published at Paris by Flammarion in 1963.

98. PEYREFITTE, Roger. – [La Nature du prince.] The
Prince’s Person. Translated by Peter Fryer. London:
Panther Books, 1966. 8vo. pp. 140. No. 2105 of thePanther paperbacks. BL: X.907/5475.
99. PEYREFITTE, Roger. – [La Nature du prince.] The
Prince’s Person. Translated by Peter Fryer. London:
Panther Books, 1969. 8vo. pp. 140. BL: X.907/9657.
100. CONCHON, Georges. – [L’État sauvage.] The Savage state. Translated by Peter Fryer. London: Collins,
1966. 8vo. pp. 255. BL: X.909/5763.
The original was published at Paris by A. Michel in 1964.

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V. Anthologies

101. Venus unmasked, or, An inquiry into the natureand origin of the passion of love, interspersed with curious and entertaining accounts of several modern
amours: an eighteenth-century anthology, edited byPeter Fryer and Leonard de Vries. London: Barker,
1967. 8vo. pp. 268. Illustrations, facsimiles and bibliography. BL: YK.1993.a.3308.
102. Venus unmasked, or, An inquiry into the natureand origin of the passion of love, interspersed with curious and entertaining accounts of several modern
amours: an eighteenth-century anthology, edited byPeter Fryer and Leonard de Vries. New York: Stein andDay, 1968. 8vo. pp. 228. Illustrations, facsimiles. Library of Congress: HQ461. V8 1967a.
103. Venus unmasked, or, An inquiry into the natureand origin of the passion of love, compiled by Leonard
de Vries and Peter Fryer. London: New English Library, 1968. 8vo. pp. 176. No. 2247 of the New English library paperbacks.
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I am indebted to Keith Mitchell for drawing my attention to thisreprint, of which I was unaware.

104. The Man of pleasure’s companion. A NineteenthCentury Anthology of Amorous Entertainment. Compiled by Peter Fryer. Illustrations. London: Arthur
Barker, 1968. 8vo. pp. 208. BL: YK.1993.a.7832.
105. The Man of Pleasure’s Companion. A Nineteenth Century Anthology of Amorous Entertainment.
Compiled by Peter Fryer. London: New English Library, 1969. 8vo. pp. 173. No. 2514 of the New English library paperbacks. BL: YK.1993.a.4002.

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VI. Biographical Essays

106. John Richard Archer. – Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by H.C.G. Matthew and BrianHarrison. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004),
vol. II, pp. 348-9.
On J. R. Archer (1836-1932), Britain’s first black mayor.

107. William Cuffay. – Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography, edited by H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), vol.
XIV, pp.567-8.
On William Cuffay (1788-1870), son of an African slave and one of
the leaders of the Chartist Movement.
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