Two years ago the Erotic Print Society published Eric Wilkin's first major anthology of his work: Top Shelf Girls. It was so successful, we decided to bring out another, bumper volume of his work. We have called this sequel to that great parade of naked female beauty Beyond the Top Shelf: The Private Photographs of Eric Wilkins. Many of the images in this book come from a particular archive of Eric's work that was never intended for publication. Eric's view of his model's untrammelled charms take us back to a time of relative innocence, before the silicone implants, before the shaven vulva, the mandatory tongue stud and any number of other dehumanising, Barbiesque, sex-doll attributes which can often make this type of imagery so lacklustre today. This is a tribute to those earlier models and, of course, to Eric's photographic art.