Would you let your wife or servant read this?

The very Penguin copy of DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover used by Sir Laurence Byrne, the presiding judge in the famous 1960 obscenity trial, has sold for £45,000.

It formed part of the eclectic mix of paintings, books and a great many curious objects that made …

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