Well finally after a level of grief you would not believe i get to list this colour version of this American clandestine “Fanny Hill”. Which disappeared in the international postage system and was lost untracked despite having a tracking, number for over 2 months. After I actually got my hands on it I found it very difficult to get usable images due to paper quality, tight binding and glare and shadow from the illustrations being on glossy paper. As a result I have sought the best reproduction I can manage which has often sacrificed squareness for better quality image. But this is a beautiful object good weight and high quality paper, and superb print, An expensive erotica, which can only really enjoyed as in book form, beautiful in the flesh, and very rare.
Here we have another clandestine copy, one of an apparently endless list of editions of this title, this one fairly clearly places itself in the Americana category, and the printing date is probably fairly accurate, who the publisher or the illustrator were is something of a mystery, however the printers device above is fairly distinctive, and not really pertinent to this particular title, so I wonder if anyone has seen it elsewhere?
The illustrations are often described as Beardlseyesque, and I can see why, but to me also slightly reminiscent of Beresford Egan.
SPECIAL NOTE: 27/07/15; Message from Pat Kearney;
Steve Hi:
I noted your edition of the ‘Hoboken’ Fanny Hill. According to Cliff
Scheiner’s “Compendium” this was first published in 1929 with the
plates — which says are in the style of Elliot Dodd — in colour. A reprint
with the plates in b&w appeared c. 1932. The original ed. with the
colour plates he describes as “rare and desirable.”
Best Pat
This Book. In publishers boards which vary in pattern and colour ,with the uniform, cloth spine, this one with faded label, printers motif barely visible . Very Good cover and contents.
Contents: Blank end-paper; Half Title, verso blank; Frontispiece; Title Page; verso limitation; facing page; half title Letter The First; verso blank: Pages 1-211 text. Complete with the 12 surreal and exotic Deco illustrations by an Unknown artist.
This copy is the first edition, published some 3 years before the mono reprints, which still carry the claim on the title page that the illustrations are in color. This is likely because it was to expensive to reproduce them in color again.
NOTE: The Print Decorations used to space the illustrations are not from this title.
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