William Lazenby was an English

English people

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 publisher of pornography

Pornography

Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,...

 active in the 1870s and 1880s. He used the aliases Duncan Cameron and Thomas Judd. His notable publications include magazines The Pearl, which published poems thought to have been written by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He invented the roundel form, wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...

, The Oyster

The Oyster

The Oyster was an erotic magazine published in London in 1883 by William Lazenby, a continuation of The Pearl. Unlike its predecessor the emphasis is mainly on heterosexual pornography.-References:...

, The Boudoir

The Boudoir

The Boudoir: a magazine of scandal, facetiae etc. was an erotic magazine published in London in the 1880s by William Lazenby, a continuation of The Pearl.-References:...

and The Cremorne

The Cremorne

The Cremorne was a pornographic magazine published by William Lazenby in London in 1882 . The title alludes to Cremorne Gardens which had by that time become a haunt of prostitutes...

He also published such books as The Romance of Lust, Randiana, or Excitable Tales

Randiana, or Excitable Tales

Randiana, or Excitable Tales is a pornographic novel published by William Lazenby in 1884. The book depicts a variety of sexual activities, including incest, defloration and lesbianism....

, The Birchen Bouquet

The Birchen Bouquet

The Birchen Bouquet is a work of pornography first published around 1770, reprinted in 1826 by George Cannon, in 1860 by William Dugdale and again in 1881 by William Lazenby...

(1881), The Romance of Chastisement

The Romance of Chastisement

The Romance of Chastisement is a Victorian pornographic collection on the theme of flagellation by St George Stock and published by John Camden Hotten in 1866...

(1883)Sigel (2005) pp.73-74,95-96 and The Sins of the Cities of the Plain

The Sins of the Cities of the Plain

The Sins of the Cities of the Plain; or, The Recollections of a Mary-Ann, with Short Essays on Sodomy and Tribadism is a pornographic book written anonymously under the pseudonym "Jack Saul", one of the first exclusively homosexual pieces of pornographic literature ever written in English...

. He was an associate of Edward Avery

Edward Avery

Edward Avery was an English publisher of pornography. His notable publications include The Whippingham Papers, including poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne, and a pirated edition of Sir Richard Burton's Kama Sutra...

 and Leonard Smithers

Leonard Smithers

Leonard Smithers was a London publisher associated with the Decadent movement. Born in Sheffield, he worked as a solicitor, qualifying in 1884, and became friendly with the explorer and orientalist Sir Richard Francis Burton. He published Burton's translation of the Book of One Thousand and One...

. He was prosecuted in 1871 and again in 1881.

After the Post Office (Protection) Act 1884, Lazenby together with other publishers such as Edward Avery

Edward Avery

Edward Avery was an English publisher of pornography. His notable publications include The Whippingham Papers, including poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne, and a pirated edition of Sir Richard Burton's Kama Sutra...

, Charles Carrington

Charles Carrington

Charles Carrington was a leading British publisher of erotica in late-19th and early 20th century Europe. Born Paul Harry Ferdinando in Bethnal Green, England on 11 November 1867, he moved in 1895 from London to Paris where he published and sold books in the rue Faubourg Montmartre and rue de...

, and Harry Sidney Nichols

Harry Sidney Nichols

Harry Sidney Nichols was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, son of a "Glass Merchant". He was an antiquarian book dealer, but he made his fortune as a Sheffield publisher and printer of high-end erotica in partnership with Leonard Smithers which included such works as Sir Richard Francis Burton's...

 moved much of their business to Paris

Paris

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to sell in the United Kingdom by mail order.