THE AUTONOMY OF PLEASURE: Libertines, License, and Sexual Revolution.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Noah Arlow illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout in black and white. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with a touch of bumping to the spine tips and corners. The contents are clean throughout and free from inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly creased dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears.

A study of sexual pleasure during the Enlightenment. 'It examines the consequences of imagining sexual pleasure as sovereign power and a law unto itself across a range of topics, including sodomy, the science of sexual difference, political philosophy, aesthetics, and race' (front flap).