Wild sex

27th November 2021

We’ve just added Tavy Notton’s powerful illustrations for Rimbaud’s explicit sonnet cycle Les Stupra, so now we have all three of Notton’s erotic commissions it’s a good time to reacquaint yourself with his amazing etchings. See them all now at by clicking here.

Persian pleasures

26th November 2021

‘A jug of wine, a loaf of bread – and thou’ – the best-known line from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, lovingly and erotically illustrated in 1920s flapper style by today’s new artist, Ronald Balfour. Read about him and his work here, and enjoy that wine!

No greater love hath any woman

25th November 2021

With great thanks to a specialist bookshop friend, we are at last able to offer you all the complete series from Mariette Lydis’s groundbreaking lesbian-themed portfolio Sappho from 1933. Tender, sensual, accomplished – see them now by clicking here.

Why should not young men be gay?

24th November 2021

Gay fantasies don’t come much gayer than those of Ed Cervone, ‘Ed of Manhattan’, who during the 1980s and 90s produced dozens of drawings and paintings featuring young men with six-pack chests, tight buttocks, and mightily swelling cocks. See them now by clicking here.

Doomed lovers

23rd November 2021

Possibly the most stylish illustrations ever to accompany Baudelaire’s famous Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), Émile Bracquemond’s powerful 1946 woodcuts for the lesbian-themed poem Femmes Damnées (Accursed Women) are now on our website here. Enjoy.

Memoirs of a woman of pleasure

22nd November 2021

Possibly the best-known work of erotic fiction, John Cleland’s Fanny Hill, was first published in London in 1748. Today’s new artist, Sophie Busson, was commissioned to create a new set of illustrations for a 1980 French edition; you can see them now by clicking here.

Smitten by song

21st November 2021

A new portfolio today from one of your favourite illustrators, Berthomme Saint-André – his 1933 prints for the erotic memoires of a German opera singer, based on the legendary Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient who seduced Beethoven and Wagner. See it now by clicking here.

What gender are you?

18th November 2021

Today’s new artist, Brooklyn-based Geoffrey Chadsey, is one of the few to engage fully with the vagaries and varieties of sexual identity. His multiple figures often shift between genders and even species. See his exciting work now by clicking here.

The graphic and versatile Dignimont

17th November 2021

A really important new artist for you all today, the talented Parisian illustrator André Dignimont, with no fewer than seven of his portfolios from the mid-1920s to the late 40s. Enjoy Maison Philibert, Gamiani, Verlaine and much more to be found here.

Dreams or nightmares?

16th November 2021

The prolific and thought-provoking Canadian artist Claude Bolduc is today’s new artist, with his disturbing paintings and drawings in which strange beings interact in a sensual and vivid dreamlike reverie. Not to everyone’s taste – see his work here and make your up own mind.