"A Monthly Journal of Voluptuous Reading"

The Pearl was a monthly journal that first appeared in July 1879 in London. Catering to every erotic taste, it flourished until December 1880, when it vanished as a mysterious as it had appeared. Here are all eighteen issues of The Pearl, featuring six serialized novels–including Lady Pokingham and La Rose d'Amour: The Adventures of a Gentleman in Search of Pleasure–lewd short stories, scandalous gossip of the day, letters from lusty readers, and licentious limericks and naughty jokes.