Lyra Elegantiarum: A collection of some of the best specimens of vers de societe and vers d'occasion in the English language by deceased authors. Edited by Frederick Locker.

LOCKER LAMPSON (FREDERICK) [1821-1895], editor. Landor (Walter Savage). *The poet William Johnson Cory's copy*

Published by Edward Moxon & Co., London, 1867

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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 Uranian poet William Johnson Cory's 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. Front free endpaper bears the inscription 'William Johnson, Halsdon [Cory's inherited Devonshire home]' in black ink - hard to discern as the endpapers are a shade of dark green. Two pencilled textual annotations, perhaps in the pervert's hand, and a lengthy pencilled note to verso of front free endpaper concerning the bibliographical details of this suppressed edition, in what seems to be the same hand. Original brown cloth with gilt fleur-de-lys decoration to spine & upper cover, and the same design in blind to lower board. An unsophisticated copy, spine showing wear, lower hinge slightly weak. (There are no poems by Cory in the anthology). Seller Inventory # 20359

Bibliographic Details

Title: Lyra Elegantiarum: A collection of some of ...

Publisher: Edward Moxon & Co., London

Publication Date: 1867

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition