Frederick Rolfe – Baron Corvo – Collected Poems – First Edition 1974
£35.00
A first edition, first printing of Collected Poems by Frederick Rolfe aka Baron Corvo, published by Cecil & Amelia Woolf, London in 1974, edited and with an introduction by Cecil Woolf. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, boards bound in publisher’s original green cloth with gilt titling to the spine, strips of fading to boards upper and lower edges, some toning to the text block. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with light bumping to extremities. Jacket design by Bill Botten.
Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913), who styled himself Baron Corvo, was an English novelist, artist, photographer and Catholic convert whose eccentric life rivalled his fiction. Proud, combative and frequently impoverished, he quarrelled with patrons and publishers while producing individual works marked by ornate prose, Catholic imagery and autobiographical fantasy. His masterpiece, Hadrian the Seventh, imagines a rejected would-be priest elected Pope. Rediscovered through A. J. A. Symons’s The Quest for Corvo, Rolfe became a cult figure.
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A first edition, first printing of Collected Poems by Frederick Rolfe aka Baron Corvo, published by Cecil & Amelia Woolf, London in 1974, edited and with an introduction by Cecil Woolf. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, boards bound in publisher’s original green cloth with gilt titling to the spine, strips of fading to boards upper and lower edges, some toning to the text block. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with light bumping to extremities. Jacket design by Bill Botten.
Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913), who styled himself Baron Corvo, was an English novelist, artist, photographer and Catholic convert whose eccentric life rivalled his fiction. Proud, combative and frequently impoverished, he quarrelled with patrons and publishers while producing individual works marked by ornate prose, Catholic imagery and autobiographical fantasy. His masterpiece, Hadrian the Seventh, imagines a rejected would-be priest elected Pope. Rediscovered through A. J. A. Symons’s The Quest for Corvo, Rolfe became a cult figure.
