A.E.H. A.W.P. A Classical Friendship. by WOUDHUYSEN, H.R. HOUSMAN, A.E. & POLLARD, A.W

FIRST EDITION limited to 350 numbered copies, printed in Bembo & Porson Greek types at the Stonehouse Fine Press; pp.68(2); tipped-in facsimile letter; new in blue cloth with inset paper labels. A fascinating exploration of 'a friendship both intimate and formal' between the poet and the bibliographer and Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum, started when undergraduates at Oxford in the 1870s. Based on their correspondence and printing in full for the first time five letters from Housman to Pollard. A fine production by Jim McCue.