Minor British Poets, 1789-1918. Part Four : The Edwardian period, 1900-1918.

University of California (University Library).

Published by University of California (University Library), Davis, first edition, 1984, 1984

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Laminated illustrated wrappers, 8vo, 179 pp, plates, facs. 2310 items. From the foreword by John McConnell: "The dates 1789-1918 mark an era more precisely than any other such dates in literary and world history, particularly the history of poetry. Nexus or no, they span the French Revolution and the First World War, the Romantics and the Imagists. This catalogue represents the fourth chronological section of the U.C. Davis collection of Minor British Poets, 1789-1918, but is the second to be published, following that of Part One, The Romantic Period, 1789-1839. Catalogues of the Early and Late Victorian Periods will follow. The collection being catalogued consists of 8900 titles obtained from C.C. Kohler of Dorking, Surrey. Our recent efforts to augment the collection from other sources have been concentrated in that Romantic Period, and nearly a thousand additional volumes in that period have been acquired so far. These will eventually appear in a revised edition of Part One… Many of the titles in this collection are very scarce indeed. A considerable number are unique, or have at least been lost to bibliography until now, with no copies in the British Library, or recorded in any other collection in their native land. A search for the first 100 titles in the National Union Catalog of pre-1956 imprints and its Supplement found that the authors of 27 have no entry at all Another 7 works have entries for the author, but our title is not listed. Sixteen of the first 100 titles are represented by only a single holding in the U.S… There are a great number of provincial imprints in the collection, and of course a good many of the books were privately printed. Many of the tides are first-books, a genus always susceptible to rarity. It is sad that so many were also last-books. How many poets died on the way to Passcnendaele?" Very Good. Seller Inventory # ABE-48541

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Title: Minor British Poets, 1789-1918. Part Four : ...

Publisher: University of California (University Library), Davis, first edition, 1984

Publication Date: 1984

Binding: Soft cover

Edition: 1st Edition