Without Prejudice. One Hundred Letters from Frederick William Rolfe 'Baron Corvo' to John Lane by Corvo, Baron Frederick Rolfe - 1963

[London]:: Privately printed fomr Allen Lane,, 1963.. One of 600 copies.. publisher's gilt-lettered boards.. A fine copy.. Tall 8vo,.

Privately printed for Allen Lane Christmas 1963. Tall 8vo. Limited edition. One of 600 copies privately printed for Allen Lane as a Christmas greeting. 119 pp. Original grey/brown paper-covered boards with orange title panels & gilt lettering to front board & spine. In the original plain orange paper wrapper. Wrapper edgeworn & chipped with darkening to spine. Endpapers slightly darkened. Printed on hand-made paper. Title page in red & black. Illustrations. . Near Fine. Boards. Limited Edition. 1963.

London: Westerham Press, for Allen Lane, 1963. Hard cover. Very Good. Octavo (26cm); 119 pages, and 4 black-and-white plates and two facsimile letters printed with colored ink on smaller leaves. Title page printed in red and black. Loosely inserted is Allen Lane's printed sheet offering the book as a gift for Christmas, 1963. Bound in paper-covered boards with gilt red labels on front and spine, in very scarce unprinted pink dust jacket. The dust jacket shows slight wear, the book is in fine condition. Six hundred copies of this book were printed at the Westerham Press in Kent and bound by Mansell in London. The paper was hand-made at Hodgkinson's Wookey Hole Mill in Somerset." -- Colophon.

London: Allen Lane, 1963. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Very Good Indeed. 10" by 6.5". Not Stated. A limited edition collection of one-hundred letters by Baron Corvo to John Lane, including a signed letter from the editor, Cecil Woolf. The first edition of this privately printed work, of which only six hundred unnumbered copies were printed.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with eight plates, four of which are facsimile of Corvo's letters.Collated, complete.Edited by Cecil Woolf, with a signed letter from Woolf loosely inserted, 'For Oliver Stoner, with very best wishes from the Editor, Cecil Woolf'. Cecil was the nephew of the Bloomsbury Group Woolfs.The collected letters of Frederick Rolfe, the Baron Corvo, to John Lane, including a total of one-hundred letters dating from 1896 to 1904.Lane was Corvo's publisher, encouraging him to contribute his first literary work to the periodical 'Yellow Book'.Rolfe was an eccentric writer who went by the pseudonym Baron Corvo. In the… Read More