"From Ming-dynasty China to the Roman Empire, Boswell's bawdy London to the seductive harems of the Arabian Nights, this lavishly illustrated collection showcases poets, artists, scholars, and lovers from around the world and through the ages as they celebrate love as their elusive muse." "Rich with rare and unusual images, this visual odyssey includes the cream of texts both sacred and profane: the Kama Sutra, The Perfumed Garden, Ovid's Ars Amatoria, The Golden Lotus and more. Provocative descriptions of lovemaking positions and methods from Indian, Asian and Arabic scholars, firsthand accounts of sexual interludes from memoirs of the great Casanova and passages from erotic classics both obscure and famed, like the scandalous Fanny Hill, fill the volume."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved