Don Tarquinio, a Kataleptic Romance.

Published by Chatto & Windus, 1905

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FIRST EDITION, title, title-vignette and decoration on final text page all printed in red, the vignette and decoration designed by Rolfe, some faint spots to prelims, recurrent at rear, pp.xiii, 257, crown 8vo, original second issue red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, backstrip faded, some damp-staining to this and borders of cloth, top edge a little dusty, tail edge roughtrimmed with a few spots, bookplate of Brian Hill to flyleaf (see below), good. 1,011 sets of sheets printed, of which 250 were used to form the second issue (as here). The copy of Brian Hill, poet (once of the literary circle, The Launderers) and executor of Augustus Theodore Bartholomew. Bartholomew, Cambridge librarian and bibliographer, was the first person to attempt a biography of Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo. Timothy D'arch Smith, in his Corvo centenary catalogue (2013), suggested that Bartholomew gave Hill this copy, around the time they met at Cambridge in 1930. Hill produced a spoof corvine play, 'Don Brianelli: An Epileptic Automatic Romance', which is now in the Brotherton Library Leeds (See D. Weeks, Corvo, page. 432). Following Bartholomew's premature death, Hill handed over his research on Corvo to A.J.A. Symons, who credits his help in 'The Quest for Corvo'. (Woolf A7(i)).…

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Title
Don Tarquinio, a Kataleptic Romance.
Author
Rolfe (Frederick, Baron Corvo.)
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Publication year
1905
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Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA

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