The RODIAD. Library Illustrative of Social Progress.
London: Cadell & Murray, Fleet Street [i.e., John Camden Hotten]. 1810 [1871]. 1st printing, limited to 250 cc [some sources say 475 cc]. [4 (blank)], 62, [4 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece. 12mo. 7" x 5-1/8". Original publisher's green leather spine over red paper-wrapped boards. Red topstain. Custom cut clear mylar wrapper. General extremity wear, with front hinge starting at top. Bookplate. A VG copy. Item #51892
"The Rodiad is a long Victorian poem on the joys of birching schoolboys. It has been ascribed, apparently falsely, to George Colman the Younger. Its true author seems to be Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton. Milnes owned one of the finest collections of erotica in Victorian Britain and had close connections with the shadowy world of English clandestine publishing." [SM-201 wiki site].
Generally regarded as a fictitious imprint; actually published by John Camden Hotten in 1871. cf. H.S. Ashbee's "Centuria librorum absconditorum", p. 471 - 474 ; Notes & Queries, 12th ser., v.11, p. 397.
The Library Illustrative of Social Progress was a series of pornographic books published by John Camden Hotten around 1872 (falsely dated 1777). They were mainly reprints of 18th C. pornographic works on flagellation. Hotten claimed to have found them in the library of Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862) but Henry Spencer Ashbee counterclaimed that they were in fact from his collection. [Wikiwand].
Price: $750.00