A discourse on the worship of Priapus, and its connection with the mystic theology of the ancients
By: by Richard Payne Knight. A new ed. To which is added an essay on the worship of the generative powers during the Middle Ages of western Europe.
Contributors: Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877.
Publisher: [J. C. Hotten]
Published: 1865
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Phallicism.; Priapus (Greek deity) -- Cult.; Phallicism -- Europe.; Sex -- Religious aspects.; Phallicism -- Italy -- Isernia.; Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Isernia (Italy) -- Religious life and customs.
Other titles: On the worship of the generative powers during the Middle Ages of western Europe.
Notes: 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.