Library Illustrative of Social Progress

Library Illustrative of Social Progress is a book series on erotic flagellation (spanking erotica) in seven volumes.

Title page of Volume VI, Sublime of Flagellation.

The volumes were allegedly assembled by the English historian Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-1862) and were printed in 1872 by Hotten, London. The originals are said to date from 1761-1777. Their authors are for the most part unknown.

Volumes

• Volume I & II: Exhibition of Female Flagellants
• Volume III: Lady Bumtickler's Revels (a self-declared comic opera in two acts on the flagellatory inclinations of aristocratic women)
• Volume IV: The Use of Flogging in Venereal Affairs
• Volume V: Madame Birchini's Dance (a collection of verse and short prose pieces depicting female birching)
• Volume VI: Sublime of Flagellation (only in 9th edition onwards; see also Miss Termagant Flaybum)
• Volume VII: Fashionable Lectures (only in 4th edition onwards)

Volumes 1-6 are available online and can be read or downloaded for free.

Publication history

• Exhibition of Female Flagellants was originally published either by George Peacock or George Cannon in London in 1830 and attributed, probably falsely, to Theresa Berkley.
• Lady Bumtickler's Revels, Madame Birchini's Dance and Sublime of Flagellation were originally published by George Peacock.
• The Use of Flogging in Venereal Affairs is a translation of Tractatus de usu flagrorum in re medica & veneria, et lumborum renumque officio by Johann Heinrich Meibom (1590-1655).

See also

• Elements of Tuition, and Modes of Punishment
• Henry Thomas Buckle on Wikipedia
• The Library Illustrative of Social Progress on Wikipedia
• Exhibition of Female Flagellants on Wikipedia

Links

• Library Illustrative of Social Progress on WikiSource (incomplete)
• Library Illustrative of Social Progress on Open Library (volumes 1-6)
• Library Illustrative of Social Progress, vol. 1 (Exhibition of Female Flagellants, part 1) on Archive.org
• Library Illustrative of Social Progress, vol. 2 (Exhibition of Female Flagellants, part 2) on Archive.org
• Library Illustrative of Social Progress, vol. 3 (Lady Bumtickler's Revels) on Archive.org
• Library Illustrative of Social Progress, vol. 4 (The Use of Flogging in Venereal Affairs) on Archive.org
• Library Illustrative of Social Progress, vol. 5 (Madame Birchini's Dance) on Archive.org
• Library Illustrative of Social Progress, vol. 6 (Sublime of Flagellation) on Archive.org