Kruptadia  

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"He formed an unrivalled assortment of Kruptadia." Of these he issued privately and under the pseudonym of 'Pisanus Fraxi,' between 1877 and 1885, a very scarce and recondite catalogue — 'Notes on Curious and Uncommon Books' — in three volumes, entitled respectively 'Index Librorum Prohibitorum' (London, 1877, 4to), 'Centuria Librorum Absconditorum' (1879), and 'Catena Librorum Tacendorum' (1885)."--Dictionary of National Biography [1]

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Kruptadia is an obsolete code word -- book dealers used it to camouflage the "erotica" in their catalogues.

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