Title: Prostitution in Europe and the Americas.

Author: Dr Fernando Henriques, M.A., Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Leeds University.

Format: Vintage 1965 sociological and historical volume in gray cloth spine and red paper-covered hardcover binding with gilt spine titling, issued as Volume II of the Prostitution and Society series.

Publisher: The Citadel Press, New York.

Publication details: Copyright page states copyright 1963 by Fernando Henriques with First American Edition 1965, manufactured in the United States of America.

Language: English.

Subject/Genre: Social history; prostitution and society; sexuality studies; sociology; European and American history.

Contents: Chapters address sexuality and early Christianity; the mediaeval whore; the century of the courtesan; prostitution in Russia and France in the eighteenth century; London in the eighteenth century; Negro prostitution in the Caribbean and Brazil; a survey of illicit sexual relations in the United States; aspects of nineteenth-century prostitution in New York; the notion of the United States as "the cleanest, great nation in the world"; American Negro prostitution in the twentieth century; and the contemporary situation in the U.S.A., followed by an index.

Illustrations: Includes chapter head designs by Rosamund Seymour with small black-and-white line drawings and decorative vignettes integrated into the text.

Interior: Text is set in a single-column layout in serif type with chapter headings, running pagination, and an index at the rear providing names and subjects.

Special attributes: First American edition of Volume II in Fernando Henriques's Prostitution and Society series from Citadel Press, illustrated with chapter designs by Rosamund Seymour and of interest to scholars and readers of social history, sexuality studies, and the historical study of prostitution in Europe and the Americas.