The Erotika Biblion Society Not to be confused with the Erotica Biblion Society of London and New York, a separate publisher with a slightly different spelling. was a pornographic publishing imprint in Sheffield formed by Harry Sidney Nichols and Leonard Smithers around 1886, with their first publication appearing in 1888. In 1891 both moved to London.
They formed their name from the nonfiction treatise of the same name, Erotika Biblion (1783), published in Paris before the French Revolution, under the penmanship of the Comte de Mirabeau. One of their most notable publications was Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal, an anonymous product of several authors in which it is speculated that Oscar Wilde collaborated.
The venture ended in 1907, after the death of Smithers.Nelson (2000) p.203
Publications
VOISENON, [Claude-Henri de Fusée] Abbé de. Fairy Tales. Translated by R. B. Douglas. Illustrated With and Etched Frontispiece by Will Rothenstein. Athens [London] 1895. Full Bibliography listed in: Steven Halliwell, The Erotika Biblion Society (The Rivendale Press, 2025).
See also
List of pornographic book publishers
References
James G. Nelson, Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, or in England & Europe Rivendale Press Patrick J. Kearney, A history of erotic literature, Macmillan, 1982, , pp. 151–153 Jon R. Godsall, The Tangled Web: A Life of Sir Richard Burton, Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2008, , p. 398 John Sutherland, The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction, Stanford University Press, 1990, , p. 591. Steven Halliwell, The Erotika Biblion Society (The Rivendale Press, 2025).