"The Weekly Rake", 1842, now at the Grolier Club

[Joel S. Berson]

Now appearing in "In Pursuit of a Vision," an exhibit of the
collections of the American Antiquarian Society at the Grolier Club,
NYC -- "The Weekly Rake" (New York), an issue from 1842.

The review in the NYTimes, Sept. 12, says it "had, the show tells us,
'frank coverage' of sexual services and practices, 'spiced with
appropriate advertising and crude but titillating illustrations'. ...
the society, we learn from the informative catalog, has an 'enviable
collection'."

Might be a good source of (in)appropriate terms for some dictionary.

Apparently a fascinating, wide-ranging exhibit of the AAS's
collection of (mainly) documents -- books, pamphlets, newspapers,
broadsheets, ephemera, etc. -- from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Joel

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