[VICE] Letter from a 'Lover of Real Pleasure and of Decency'
Book Description
15pp. Clean, bound in marbled boards
Letter expressing shock at the state of 'undress' of performers in an opera performance
...(which) 'no modest woman could behold without experiencing the most unpleasant and, let me add, disgusting sensations.'
...during this inclement season, an actor would be happy to appear covered with furs, or the thickets garments, instead of being skinned over with the very thinnest silks and gauze muslins'
Author
ANON
Date
1805
Publisher
Society for the Suppression of Vice [Cadell and Davies]
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