The Hell-Fire Club : The Story of the Amorous Knights of Wycombe

208pp. Sparsely illustrated, indexed. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine (a little worn at edges). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring remains of bookseller’s ticket on front paste down. This history of the 18th century English secret society which included amongst its ranks many of the great and good of the times, a Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and other Cabinet Ministers, and of their bizarre rituals, first in the Abbey of Medmenham, and later at the legendary Hell-Fire Club in caves cut into the heart of West Wycombe Hill;