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Landmark banned book goes on auction

A copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover used by the judge in the famous obscenity trial in 1960 will be auctioned at Sotheby's next month, along with a list of significant passages highlighted by the judge's wife.

Dr David Goldthorpe, head of books and manuscripts at Sotheby's, read some of Lady Dorothy Byrne's comments for Today.

(Image: Copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover on auction. Credit: Sotheby's)

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