page_title: Erotika Biblion Society
hierarchical_section_title: Erotika Biblion Society
caption_attribution_description: Scan of the title page from the 1901 edition of the novel "The Autobiography of a Flea"
context_page_description: The Erotika Biblion Society was a pornographic publishing imprint in Victorian London formed by Harry Sidney Nichols and Leonard Smithers in 1888. They formed their name from the 1783 nonfiction treatise of the same name under the penmanship of the Comte de Mirabeau. One of their most notable publications was Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal, thought to have been written by Oscar Wilde. The venture ended in 1907, after the death of Smithers.
context_section_description: The Erotika Biblion Society was a pornographic publishing imprint in Victorian London formed by Harry Sidney Nichols and Leonard Smithers in 1888.  They formed their name from the 1783 nonfiction treatise of the same name under the penmanship of the Comte de Mirabeau. One of their most notable publications was Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal, thought to have been written by Oscar Wilde.  The venture ended in 1907, after the death of Smithers.
caption: The Autobiography of a Flea, Edward Avery, Republication by The Erotika Biblion Society in 1901
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