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Obscenity (Law)

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  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A doctor who writes books of sexual advice talking to his cynical publisher. Coloured lithograph, 1852.
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    A doctor who writes books of sexual advice talking to his cynical publisher. Coloured lithograph, 1852.

    | Date: [1852?] | Reference: 563205i
    Part of: Morality of modern medicine-mongers. Dedicated to the husbands, fathers, and brothers, of England, and also to the societies for the prevention of vice
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    Obscene literature in law and practice / by Sir Edward Tindal Atkinson.

    Atkinson, Edward Tindal, Sir, 1878- | Date: [1937]
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    Who's obscene? / by Mary Ware Dennett.

    Dennett, Mary Ware, 1872-1947. | Date: [1930], ©1930
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    To the pure ... : a study of obscenity and the censor / by Morris L. Ernst and William Seagle.

    Ernst, Morris L. (Morris Leopold), 1888-1976. | Date: [1929]
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    Darwin, literature and Victorian respectability / Gowan Dawson.

    Dawson, Gowan. | Date: 2007
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