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• Erotic literature -- Early works to 1800
• Erotic literature -- History and criticism
• Erotic literature -- Periodicals
• Erotic literature, English
• Love-letters

• Le Livre de Volupté (Bah Nameh) (in French; Haqq credited as translator, but title page information dubious; ca. 1884), contrib. by Abdul Haqq (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of Classical Erotology (De Figuris Veneris) (literal English version; Manchester: Privately printed for Viscount J. Smithson and friends, 1884), by Friedrich Karl Forberg (Gutenberg text)
• The Romance of Lust (based on a 4-volume 1892 edition) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Amorous Intrigues and Adventures of Aaron Burr (ca. 1861) (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• My Secret Life (11 volumes, 1888) (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Catena Librorum Tacendorum: Being Notes Bio-Biblio-Icono-Graphical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books (London: Privately printed, 1885), by Henry Spencer Ashbee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbidden Books: Notes and Gossip on Tabooed Literature, by an Old Bibliophile (attributed to Carrington in "Encyclopedia of Censorship"; Paris: For the author and his friends, 1902), by Charles Carrington (page images at Gallica)
• Index Librorum Prohibitoru: Being Notes Bio- Biblio- Icono-Graphical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books, by Pisanus Fraxi (London: Privately printed, 1877), by Henry Spencer Ashbee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Private Case: An Annotated Bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British (Museum) Library (London: J. Landesman, 1981), by Patrick J. Kearney, contrib. by G. Legman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dictionary of Erotic Literature (New York: Philosophical Library, c1962), by Harry E. Wedeck (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Voyage to Lethe (London: Printed for J. Conybeare, 1741), by Samuel Cock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies (2 volumes; London and New York: The Alexandrian Society, 1922), by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme, trans. by A. R. Allinson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Choise of Valentines: or, The Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo (London: Priv. print. for subscribers only, 1899), by Thomas Nash, ed. by John Stephen Farmer
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Dictionary of Erotic Literature (New York: Philosophical Library, c1962), by Harry E. Wedeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Erotic Motive in Literature (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919), by Albert Mordell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Transgressions of Reading: Narrative Engagement as Exile and Return (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), by Robert D. Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Sprache der Lateinischen Erotik (in German; Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1912), by Richard Reitzenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Closet Devotions (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998), by Richard Rambuss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eros, contrib. by Ralph Ginzburg and Herb Lubalin (full serial archives)
• The Pearl (partial serial archives)

• Liber Amoris: or, The New Pygmalion, by William Hazlitt (Gutenberg text)

• The Touchstone, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)

• Love Letters (c2007), by Eberhard Arnold and Emmy Arnold (PDF at plough.com)

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• The Private Case: An Annotated Bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British (Museum) Library (London: J. Landesman, 1981), by Patrick J. Kearney, contrib. by G. Legman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Royal Museum at Naples: Being Some Account of the Erotic Paintings, Bronzes, and Statues Contained in That Famous "Cabinet Secret", by Colonel Fanin (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Obscenity and the Limits of Liberalism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Loren Glass and Charles Francis Williams, contrib. by Michael Taussig, Nadine Strossen, Brett Gary, Tim Miller, Jyoti Puri, Laura Kipnis, Mikita Brottman, David Sterritt, and John Durham Peters (PDF at Ohio State)
• Literary Trials: Exceptio Artis and Theories of Literature in Court (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, c2016), ed. by Ralf Grüttemeier, contrib. by Gisèle Sapiro, Anton Kirchhofer, Ted Laros, K. Beekman, Claudia Lieb, Sylvia Sasse, Katharina Hupe, Peter D. McDonald, and Martin A. Kayman (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Lotteries, Frauds and Obscenity in the Mails (Columbia, MO: Press of E. W. Stephens, 1900), by John Lilburn Thomas (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality, by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon (HTML at nostatusquo.com)

• Jurgen and the Law: A Statement, With Exhibits, Including the Court's Opinion, and the Brief for the Defendants on Motion to Direct an Acquittal (New York: R. McBride, 1923), ed. by Guy Holt
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• People of the State of New York Against Guy Holt, Robert N. McBride and Company, and Robert N. McBride: Brief for Defendants on Motion to Direct an Acquittal (New York: Evening Post Job Printing Office, ca. 1922), by Garrard Glenn, William U. Goodbody, and William L. Glenn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the New York State Joint Legislative Committee to Study the Publication and Dissemination of Offensive and Obscene Material (1962), by New York State Joint Legislative Committee Studying the Publication and Dissemination of Offensive and Obscene Material (page images at HathiTrust; US access onny)
• "Obscene" Literature and Constitutional Law: A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the Press (1911), by Theodore Schroeder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality, by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon (HTML at nostatusquo.com)
• Comic Books, Municipal Control of Sale and Distribution: A Preliminary Study (report #124; Washington: National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, 1948), by Charles S. Rhyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music Lyrics and Commerce: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Competitiveness of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, February 11 and May 5, 1994 (Washington: GPO, 1994), by United States House. Committee on Energy and Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lotteries, Frauds and Obscenity in the Mails (Columbia, MO: Press of E. W. Stephens, 1900), by John Lilburn Thomas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Postal Laws and Regulations of the United States of America: Compiled, Revised, and Published in Accordance with the Act of Congress Approved March 3, 1891 (Washington: GPO, 1893), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)

• Practical, Sharp, Eccentric and Humorous Prison-Life Thoughts! (Philadelphia: Landis publishing society, 1872), by Simon M. Landis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by David Andrews (PDF at Ohio State)

• Poetica Erotica: A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse (3 volumes; New York: Pub. for subscribers only by Boni and Liveright, 1921-1922), ed. by T. R. Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The "Wrecks": An Anthology of Ribald Verse Collected at Reno (Reno, NV: Privately Printed for subscribers only, ca. 1934) (PDF and HTML at horntip.com)

• Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts (issues online 1962-1965), ed. by Ed Sanders (partial serial archives)

• The Erotic Whitman (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by Vivian R. Pollak (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Quinkin: Erotic Poems From the Australian Aborigines (Geelong, Australia: Gamahucher Press, 2006), by Colin Leslie Dean (PDF with commentary at Gamahucher Press)

• Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Lauren Silberman (HTML at UC Press)

• Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Ronnie Ancona (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ovid, Amores (Book 1) (from the Dickinson College Commentaries series; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), by Ovid, ed. by William Turpin (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Ars Amatoria: or, The Art of Love (prose translation; 1885), by Ovid, trans. by Henry T. Riley (Gutenberg text)

• Music Lyrics and Commerce: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Competitiveness of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, February 11 and May 5, 1994 (Washington: GPO, 1994), by United States House. Committee on Energy and Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)

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