#369 - Bondage Boutique Bill Ward Hilbarth

Bondage Boutique
illustrated by Bill Ward
Hilbarth, Inc.,
Buffalo, New York
1972

digital replica

One of the most productive illustrators of the 20th century, the fluid lines of the great Bill Ward delineate voluptuous beauties, most of whom wear high-heeled pumps, sheer stockings and figure-shaping corsets that hold them in place.

In Agony in France, we met Countess de Melichamp, and in Bondage Boutique we're introduced to Baroness Melichamp, a sexy sadist who owns the Bondage Boutique company.

In the hours before a meeting of her staff, she torments both her French maid and the young man who delivers groceries. The Baroness enforces body worship from nearby submissives between applications of whip, quirt and ropes.

Staff includes pretty Joyce and her boss, Mr. Conklin, who become intimately acquainted on the sofa. An irresistible woman with an unquenchable sexual appetite, the Baroness insinuates herself into the matinee, making it a threesome. Then, Joyce shows her lots of respect while Conklin fondles the Baroness.

The Baroness punishes Florence for failing to observe costume rules. Then, all adjourn to the dungeon, where Her Royal Meanness enjoys hours of whipping, bondage, and boot worship.
The original publication has the construction and dimensions of a full-sized magazine. The layout alternated text on even-numbered pages with pictures on odd-numbered and the full-sized ebook does the same.

The writing is better than competent, and was probably written by Mr. Ward. Although the prose traces most of the action, costumes and characters shown in the luscious illustrations, some descriptions are longer or shorter than one page. As the ebook duplicates the page sequence of the original, text is not always synchronized with images.

Everything in the original transposed well to the digital replica with large, clear pictures, including the color cover. Lots of tantalizing sex and femdom mayhem on 45+ pages that readers will access again and again.

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