The Illustrated Book of Bottoms

'Although... the bottom has no direct bearing on fertility, it is hard to deny that as a sign of radiant fecundity the bottom may then, as now, have played a key role.'

The first and longest-in-print of the Illustrated Book of... series, Oliver Maitland's Bottoms is a tour de derrière - a posterior view of erotic art throughout the ages. Carefully selected from the Erotic Review Books archive of erotic images, this highly explicit, pocket-sized tome contains a positive cornucopia of female rumps: scores of illustrations showing rampant scenes of explicit sex with unapologetic captions.

The erudite text on the subject of what Shakespeare called 'the later part' - a thought-provoking disquisition by bon viveur Maitland - completes an elegant little volume that will make an ideal gift for broad-minded members of either sex. No bottom-fancier should be without it.