Frontispiece to the 1788 New York edition of Aristotle’s Masterpiece.
Featured on PDR in the essay When the Birds and the Bees Were Not Enough: Aristotle’s Masterpiece
Mary Fissell on how a wildly popular sex manual — first published in 17th-century London and reprinted in hundreds of subsequent editions — both taught and titillated through the early modern period and beyond.
Also appearing in the essay…
The Effigies of a Maid All Hairy, and an Infant That Was Born Black by the Imagination of the Parents
Date
1788
From
Aristotle’s Masterpiece
