Edward Sellon: THE UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE
1st 1987 128pp small hardback. Illustrated in colour. Decorated endpapers. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper.
Limited edition 250/374. Contains 8 colour reproductions of the original plates executed by the author. A reprint of Sellon's (unfinished) erotic autobiography first published in London in 1867. Introduction by C. J. Scheiner. A frank, and sometimes brutally honest account of Sellon's various sexual exploits, both in the army in Colonial India and at home. Sellon is known for his early attempts at describing tantra to a Western audience. He was also rumoured to have been a member of the sexo-magical order The Cult of the Peacock. He took his own life in a hotel in Picadilly in 1866 (his suicide note resides in the Midian archives).

