Locker Lampson Frederick Editor (3 results)

Vellum Spine, Cloth Sides. Condition: Very Good. Frontispiece (illustrator). Limited Edition. A very nice copy. Signed by editor on limitation page. No. 33 of 250 copies. Top edge gilt. Vellum spine with burgundy cloth sides. Gilt titling to spine and gilt blocking along spine. Burgundy cloth bookmark sewn into headband. Heavy age staining to front and rear free end papers, small age stain on fep, light glue staining to fep and rear end paper, else textblock immaculate and tight. Light shelf wear to binding, bumped corners, light corner wear, light character soiling. 425pp., including Index of Writers, Index of First Lines, and Notes Size: 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall. By Editor. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1867. First edition, first issue. xx,360pp. §This is the original issue, hastily recalled by the publisher, containing poems by Walter Savage Landor issued without permission. The anthology was immediately reissued without them. §The schoolmaster and Uranian poet William Johnson Cory's (1823-1892) copy, with ink inscription to half-title reading, 'Wm Johnson from Lady Winchilsea received two days after leaving Haverholme Jan[.]y 9 1867'. Cory was dismissed from Eton under a cloud of scandal in 1872, publicly changing his name from Johnson to Cory at the same time. "In April 1872 Johnson suddenly resigned at Eton, and no one can be quite sure of the exact circumstances of his resignation. There is no question, however, that he was dangerously fond of a number of boys. Although he probably did not allow his affections to take any physical form, he permitted intimacies between the boys. This conduct was brought to the notice of the headmaster, James Hornby, who demanded Johnson's resignation, and Johnson retired quietly to the family home, Halsdon, which he had leased from his brother. He also resigned the fellowship of King's [College, Cambridge]; his influence there had been on the side of opening up the college from its traditional Etonian exclusiveness. Wanting a fresh start, he changed his surname to Cory" - ODNB. Front free endpaper bears the inscription 'William Johnson, Halsdon' in black ink - hard to discern as the endpapers are a shade of dark green. Four brief pencilled annotations to text, and lengthy pencilled note to verso of front free endpaper concerning the bibliographical details of this suppressed edition - apparently in Cory's hand. Original brown cloth with gilt fleur-de-lys decoration to spine & upper cover, and the same design in blind to lower board. Old clipping from bookseller's catalogue pasted to upper corner of front pastedown. An unsophisticated copy, spine showing wear, lower hinge slightly weak. (There are no poems by Cory in the anthology). Signed by Author(s).

[Verse Anthology] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (23 x 19cm), pp.[2] xx; 425 [3]. Number 178 of 500 copies thus, SIGNED by Frederick Locker-Lampson in black ink to the limitation page. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the editor. Publisher's quarter vellum, with gilt titles to spine and burgundy cloth over boards. Fore and lower edges untrimmed; top edge gilt. Illustrated bookplate of Holmes Bristol to front pastedown. Quite heavy toning to edges and endpapers. A pink water stain to the top corner of the frontispiece, and adjacent few leaves, otherwise internally clean. Heavy toning and moderate wear to covers. Very good. Signed.