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In my humble opinion, this is less a matter of official censorship, and more
a matter of either private *eeuch* or just the accidents of history. When
did the British Library start believing it collected everything printed?
Where else, e.g. National Library of Scotland, might such material be
collected?
P
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The BL had (still has, perhaps) a separate section for erotica. Dunno about
the other copyright deposit libraries.
The ending of the entry -- Asbbeel, 133-7; B.A. 384. -- looks like a library
classification number, or numbers, but the question is, Which library (or
libraries)? I'll (obviously) try to chase this further, and if I click, let
everyone know.
As it stands, the title alone is interesting, but the actual book may have
something more on blowens -- 'Rummy Whore' in the title of the song, "My
Woman is a Rummy Whore," sounds to me like a version of 'rum blowen', which
would be commoner. Don't think I've come across 'rummy' as a form of 'rum'
(excellent) elsewhere.
Robin
> 542 "BLOWEN'S, the, cabinet of choice songs." A Beautiful. .
> . Collection of... Smutty Ditties . . . Contains, inter alia
> : "The Great Plenipotentiary/'
> "Oh, Miss Tabitha Ticklecock," "The Magical Carrot of the
> Parsley Bed,"
> "Katty O'More or the Root," "My Mot's in the Luck," "Roger in
> all his Glory," "My Woman is a Rummy Whore," "The Pego
> Club--The Invisible Tool." pp. 48, sm. 8vo. W. Weft, 57 Wych
> St., Strand, n.d. (c. 1830).
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> Asbbeel, 133-7; B.A. 384.
> 41
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