Sexual Symbolism: A History of Phallic Worship, Richard Payne Night & Thomas Wright, intro by Ashley Montagu (The Julia Press, Inc., New York, 1962)
9.5″ X 6.5″, 217pp + 196pp, hardbound with dustjacket, good condition for age, a few tears in the dustjacket
A reprinting of two earlier works with an introduction by Ashley Montagu. The works are: “A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and it’s connection with the mystic theology of the ancients” [1786] by Richard Payne Knight “to which is added an account of the remains of the worship of priapus lately existing at isernia in the kingdom of Naples by Sir William Hamilton, K.B.” and “The Worship of the Generative Powers” [1866] by Thomas Wright