THE
Literature of Kissing,
GLEANED FROM
HISTORY, POETRY, FICTION, AND
ANECDOTE.

BY
C. C. BOMBAUGH, A.M., M.D.,
AUTHOR OF “GLEANINGS FOR THE CURIOUS,” “THE BOOK OF BLUNDERS,” ETC.

“Touch but my lips with those fair lips of thine,

The kiss shall be thine own as well as mine.”

Shakspeare.

PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
LONDON: 16 SOUTHAMPTON ST., COVENT GARDEN.
1876.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.