News at Eleven: Dr Claudine van Hensbergen, a researcher

at Oxford University, thinks she may have stumbled on the reason for the success of an apparently serious volume called The Works of the Earls of Rochester and Roscommon, which ran to more than 20 editions and was reprinted throughout the 18th century.

Bound in at the back of the 1714 edition, van Hensbergen found, was a section called the Cabinet of Love. It contained three poems, "the organising principle of which," van Hensbergen says, "appears to be the dildo".

from The Guardian: Poetry bestseller boasts saucy secret in the bookbinding . . . 18th century porn
then The Telegraph: Pornographic poems 'hidden' in verse of major 18th century poets

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