Phallic Miscellanies; Facts And Phases Of Ancient And Modern Sex Worship, As Illustrated Chiefly In The Religions Of India by (Jennings, Hargrave) - 1881

Privately Published, , 1881; First Edition, limited; small 8vo, 104 pgs. including 2 pgs. of publisher’s advertisements at the back. A comprehensive study of the practices and origins of phallic worship. Part of the "Nature Worship And Mystical Series" authored anonymously but widely attributed to notable British occultist and comparative religionist Hargrave Jennings (1917?-1890), who wrote "Phallicism, Celestial and Terrestrial"... (1884) and "The Rosicrucians..." (1870). Hargrave’s central thesis placed worship of the sexual organs at the foundation of all the world’s religions. Frontispiece illustration depicting a woman engaged in the ceremony of Linga Puja. Very Good, in vellum-covered beveled boards, stamped in red. Text clean, bright, supple, with no trace of foxing. Binding tight, sound and square. Spine tanned. A scarce book, privately printed in very limited number, reportedly just 500 copies.