A note

The preceding page images were posted on the Digital Library of

India as individual files, miscatalogued as a result of someone whose
first language was not English having difficulty reading the
blacketter on the main title page. Some minor restoration work was
necessary on a number of pages, particularly the plates and two
pages in the table of contents. In a few cases (the ornaments at the
ends of the preface and section) it was not possibly to restore the
(inexplicably) omitted parts if the image. It does not however appear
that any actual text is missing. Placing of the plates is in a few
instances conjectural

The date on the title page is not strictly correct; this work was not
actually issued until 1873, after the death of the publisher John
Camden Hotten, who had advertised it and prepared for the press in
1869, intending it as a follow-up to Two Essays on the Worship of
Priapus by Richard Payne Knight et al. See “Pisanus Fraxi” (Henry
S. Ashbee), Index Librorum Prohibitorum, p. 83 sqq., where may be
found in extenso a transcript of Hotten’s original circular for the
book.

Since the bulk of this work is of at best only tangential relevance to

the studies which have led me into the morass of the Phallicist
school of History of Religion, and since I have enough projects in the
CP / UP “stew” (neither a stack nor a queue) of in-progress or projec-
ted e-text projects to keep me occupied for the rest of the decade, I
currently have absolutely no intention of issuing a re-set. Anyone
who wants to use these page images to produce one of their own on
their own imprint is of course entirely free do so.