26 Another Copy of the same edition, printed upon a beautiful laid deckle-edge paper. UNEXPURGATED. Cloth, 8vo. gilt tops, New York, 1912. $3.00
27 Amatory. The Works of Tibullus, containing his Four Books of Love—Elegies. Translated by Mr. Dart. To which is prefix'd the Life of the Author. Also, Some Observations on the Original Design of Elegiac Verse; with Characters of the most Celebrated Greek, Latin and English Elegiac Poets. Finely engraved frontispiece, and several head-and-tail pieces. Post 8vo. new ½ polished brown calf extra, gilt tooled backs, with green levant labels, gilt top. London, 1720. $12.50
The works of Ovid having been some time translated, and met with so favorable a reception, the translator thought it would not be disagreeable to introduce a polite contemporary of his, in our language, one whom Ovid himself imitated, and for whom he had so great a value that he recommends his pupils in Art of Love, to read his works, and gather from them all the tender sentiments expressed of the tenderest of passions.
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Let it not be supposed that the author's intention has been that of writing an obscene book, or even to employ obscene words. He holds that the grand subject—the Reproduction of the Human Race—which runs more or less through all the essays in this volume, is, in itself, most pure, and that the words which are necessary, adequately, and correctly to describe it in its various phases and ramifications, have acquired the stigma of obscene only in modern times, and, though an ultra-fastidiousness, which would hesitate to apply the word breech to a man's small clothes, but would rather designate them as unmentionables, indescribables, or femoral habiliments.
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The reproduction powers of nature were regarded by the nations of remote antiquity with an awe and reverence so great as to form an object of worship, under a symbol, of all others the most significant—the Phallus; and this was founded a religion, of which the traces exist to this day, not in Asia alone, but even in Europe itself.