the guise of "Miss Eveline" recounts how he meets Boulton ("Miss Laura") and Park dressed up as women at Haxell's Hotel in the Strand with Boulton's lover and "husband" Lord Arthur Clinton trailing along behind. Jack Saul later spends the night at Boulton and Park's rooms in Eaton Square and the next day has breakfast with them "all dressed as ladies". Pornographic bookseller Charles Hirsch claimed that this was one of the "Socratic" books that he purveyed to Oscar Wilde in 1890. In 1883, Hirsh published a sequel "Letters from Laura and Eveline, Giving an Account of Their Mock-Marriage, Wedding Trip, etc. Published as an Appendix to Sins of the Cities." It was reprinted in 1899 and 1903. Only one original copy is known to survive: that of the third edition. The only known copy of the original edition of Sins of the Cities of the Plain is held by the British Library. Both books have been republished by Valancourt Books. Authorship It has been suggested that it was largely written by the pornographer James Campbell Reddie. Reddie died several years before its publication, and was ill with poor eyesight prior to that, which makes his connection unlikely. Authorship has also been attributed to the painter Simeon Solomon, who had been convicted of public indecency in 1873 and disgraced. However, this attribution is based on speculation and the "circumstantial evidence" of Solomon's friendship with Boulton and Park. List of chapters Volume 1 Volume 2 Editions The Sins of the Cities of the Plain; or, The Recollections of a Mary-Ann, with Short Essays on Sodomy and Tribadism. 2 vols. London: privately printed, 1881. The Sins of the Cities of the Plain; or, The Recollections of a Mary-Ann, with Short Essays on Sodomy and Tribadism. London and New York: Erotica Biblion Society, [1902]. Sins of the Cities of the Plain, ed. James Jennings. Badboy Books. New York: Masquerade Books, 1992. The 1992 edition not only switches the sex of almost all characters but also adds and omits entire scenes, as noted by Morris B. Kaplan. Die Sünde von Sodom. Erinnerungen eines viktorianischen Strichers, ed. and translated by Wolfram Setz. Bibliothek rosa Winkel, 12. Berlin: Verlag rosa Winkel, 1995; Hamburg: MännerschwarmSkript, 2005. Jack Saul, Sins of the Cities of the Plain. New Traveller's Companion Series, 91. [no place]: Olympia Press, 2006. The Sins of the Cities of the Plain, ed. Wolfram Setz. Kansas