Wordsworth, Hertfordshire, 1996, reprint.  ISBN 1-85326-626-4.  Trade soft cover, 440 pages including Contents (pages 851-1291).  Good plus; some corner, edge and cover wear, creases and reading creases; binding sound; interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  “This quirky and obsessive book details the erotic experiences of ‘Walter’, the narrator, an upper middle-class Victorian man of means.  As a sexual autobiography it gives an almost painfully truthful account of the author’s amorous adventures, his visits to brothels and his reflections on forbidden pleasures, his female cousins’ anatomy, bawdy books and almost every other aspect of sexuality that was taboo in his lifetime.  In the words of Patrick J. Kearney the book reveals ’more about London’s low life and the cruel exploitation of women and young girls than a dozen or so Dickens or Mayhews’.” (from rear wrap)