A Pictorial History of Striptease: 100 Years of Undressing to Music

First UK edition. Hardback in dust jacket. 160pp. Pictorial red cloth; scuffed to board edges. Jacket price-clipped; short tear to tail of lower panel with tape repair to reverse. *** From 19th Century music halls to the mid-1970s, Richard Wortley (from the cult classic Skin Deep in Soho) gives us a potted history of striptease in this lavishly illustrated book. There’s more showing than telling, which given the subject seems appropriate.