Robinson (Julian) [Pseudonym Viscount Ladywood]

Weiber-Herrschaft. Die Geschichte der körperlichen und der seelischen Erlebnisse…,

3 vol. number 503 of 650 copies, titles in yellow and black, yellow typographic ornaments throughout, 6 colour plates, original green leather, gilt-tooled, t.e.g., upper cover rubbed in one volume, cardboard slipcase rubbed, [Lexicon of Images, vol. 663; Hayn-Gotendorf II, 286, & VI, 487], 4to, n.p., privately printed, Leipzig, 1909.

*** First English translation by E. von Berini-Bell of the first German edition of Julian Robinson's ‘Gynecocracy’. "One of the most interesting and strangest books in erotic world literature" (Hayn-Gotendorf). The book decorations and bindings by Karl Maria Diez are in Art Nouveau style.