FIFTY SONNETS FOR FELICITY

Rowley, Richard

Published by Mourne Press, Newcastle (Co. Down) Ireland, 1942

Small Octavo. Green paper-covered boards with black floral design to top board, and black title to spine. Fading and sunning to front board. Frontis illustrations of author with pipe, from a pencil drawing by Thomas Carr. 62 pages, with a lovely printer's emblem to recto of final leaf. Richard Rowley was the pseudonym of Richard Valentine Williams (1877-1947) a writer of poems, plays and stories. Richard Rowley was the pseudonym of Richard Valentine Williams (2 April 1877 25 April 1947),.of Belfast, Ireland, who wrote poetry, plays and stories. During World War II, Rowley founded, and ran from his Newcastle home, the short-lived Mourne Press, about which he wrote this: "The Mourne Press has been founded mainly to give encouragement to the younger writers of Ulster. Its aim is cultural, and not commercial. / If any profits result from the publications a fund will be created to enable us to issue the works of new writers, who under present conditions find it difficult to introduce themselves to their audience; but it will always be the aim of the Press to maintain a high literary standard." He went on to list the volumes he hoped to publish within the next twelve months; this list included the writers Forrest Reid; A.E.J. Nugent; Michael M'Laverty; Lynn Doyle; Arthur Harvey; Sam Hanna Bell; John Hewitt; Jack Loudan; Denis Ireland; John Irvine; Thomas Carnduff; Patrick MacDonogh; George Galway . Willoughby Weaving". Seller Inventory # 87800

Bibliographic Details

Title: FIFTY SONNETS FOR FELICITY
Publisher: Mourne Press, Newcastle (Co. Down) Ireland
Publication Date: 1942
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition.