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Kp.5.19 (Copy 1)
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Kp.5.20 (Copy 2)
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Kp.5.21(02) (Copy 3)
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Kp.5.22(02) (Copy 4)
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Kp.5.23(02) (Copy 5)
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Kp.5.24(02) (Copy 6)
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Kp.5.25(02) (Copy 7)
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Kp.5.26(02) (Copy 8)
Author
Title
Ionica II.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Cambridge : printed at the University Press, 1877.
Physical description
[52] p. ; 17 cm.
Note
Anonymous. By William Johnson Cory.
Note
Printed for circulation by the author. Imprint place and name from title page verso.
Note
Unpaginated; first leaf (conjugate with the title page) is blank.
Note
Many copies have 3 ms. corrections by the author on pp. [5], [16], and [22]. These errata were corrected in the collected edition of 1891.
Note
Issued in plain blue-grey wrappers.
Note
The first collection "Ionica" was published in 1858; a collected edition was published in 1891.
Citation/references note
Carter, J. Hand-list of the printed works of William Johnson, afterwards Cory (Cambridge Bibliographical Society ; 1, 1949), 19
Provenance
[Copy 1] Armorial bookplate of Frederick Pollock, initialled in ink "G.H.P." Part of a set having also the booklabel of John Waynflete Carter and Carter's ms. note "the gift of Simon Nowell Smith".
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[Copy 3] Booklabel of John Carter. Inscribed to Laura Lyttelton from Arthur C. Ainger, Eton, July 5, 1885.
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[Copy 4] Bookplate of G. W. Prothero, to whom the book is inscribed by the author, 1887. Booklabel of Eton College Library with note that the book was given by Geoffrey Madan.
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[Copy 5] Ms. inscription: "C. D. Williamson from the author", with later addition recording Cory's death, and motto "The shrine is bare: the altar cold: but let the outer fabric stand"; name "C.D. Williamson on a slip laid down on same leaf. Anonymous bookplate of C. D. Williamson(?) with figure of a reader and motto "Ie sui ici en l'iv d'ami".
Provenance
[Copy 6] Armorial bookplate of F. Manley Sims and circular ink stamp of Manley Sims Eton Collection. AL to Manley Sims from Maggs Bros. dated 12 May 1898 sending two copies of Ionica and one other work on approval.
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[Copy 7] Booklabel of John Waynflete Carter. Engraved booklabel with monogram "RB", i.e. Reginald Brett. Pencil note in Carter's hand: "Reginald Brett, Lord Esher's copy, afterwards in Sir Hugh Walpole's Library (though without bookplate). Bought from Danielson 1948".
Provenance
[Copy 8] Ownership inscription of J. F. Baddeley, London. Eton College Library booklabel recording gift by Mrs [Welbore] St C[lair]. Baddeley in memory of her son Captain E. L. O. Baddeley, February 1932.
Binding
[Copy 1] Late 19th century dark green goatskin ; blind double-rule borders and spine decoration ; gilt spine title ; gilt edges ; marbled endpapers. Numbered as second volume of a set with a copy of "Ionica" (ECL copy 8).
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[Copy 2] Original plain blue-grey wrappers.
Binding
[Copy 2] In original wrappers, housed in acid free envelope.
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[Copy 3] 19th century brown morocco half binding ; gilt spine title ; marbled paper boards ; marbled endpapers ; gilt edges.
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[Copy 4] 19th century olive calf ; border of two sets gilt fillets joined at corners ; gilt spine title.
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[Copy 5] 19th century red goatskin ; blind-ruled border and spine ; five raised bands ; gilt spine title ; dark green endpapers ; gilt edges. Binder's stamp of E. [?Alley].
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[Copy 6] 19th century dark blue morocco ; ornate gold-tooled turn-ins ; binder's stamp of Riviere & Son.
Binding
[Copy 7] Pale blue-grey paper boards ; "Ionica" stamped vertically on spine. Note in John Carter's hand identifying this as the Bain style binding, i.e. copies bound for sale by James Bain after Cory's death.
Binding
[Copy 8] As ECL copy 7, but with "Ionica" stamped horizontally on spine and on front board.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Loosely inserted ALS from Pollock to "My dear tutor", on stationery of the Kernoozers Club, dated [London], 15 March 1892. Loosely inserted description of another copy inscribed by Pollock as lot 273 in the Sotheby's sale, 16 March 1964.
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[Copy 2] Uncorrected copy.
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[Copy 3] Corrected copy, bound with a copy of Ionica (ECL copy 9)
Copy-specific note
[Copy 4] Corrected copy, bound with a copy of Ionica (ECL copy 10). 10 pages of autograph verses by Cory on endpapers, one dated 1870, and tipped-in ALS (4 pp.) from Cory to Prothero dated 8 February 1877, returning the newly bound book to Prothero having "written on most of the spare leaves". Loosely inserted ALS on headed stationery from the bookseller James Bain to Geoffrey Madan, dated 21 July 1926, comparing different editions of the work.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 5] Corrected copy. Bound with a copy of Ionica (ECL copy 11). Extensive annotations which according to a note on the endleaf are all in Cory's hand except where bracketed and initialled CDRW. This attribution is questioned in an undated, unsigned typescript note suggesting that all the notes are "in the hand of C. D. 'Chatty' Williamson" and that he "would appear to have copied these notes from another copy". On two leaves of blue paper and endleaves are 7 pp. of ms. verses possibly in Cory's hand but possibly transcribed, with dates between 1870 and 1888. Loosely inserted clipping from the Times, 30 April 1936, on 'Housman the poet'.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 6] Corrected in pencil. Bound with a copy of Ionica (ECL copy 12)
Copy-specific note
[Copy 7] Uncorrected copy, bound with a copy of Ionica (ECL copy 13)
Copy-specific note
[Copy 8] Corrected copy with note inside front cover in three hands attributing corrections to Cory. Bound with a copy of "Ionica" (ECL copy 14).
Subject
English poetry 19th century.
Added entry--name
Pollock, Frederick, 1845 - 1937 former owner.
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Nowell-Smith, Simon, 1909 - ? former owner.
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Carter, John, 1905 - 1975 former owner.
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Prothero, G. W., 1848 - 1922 George Walter
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Madan, Geoffrey, 1895 - 1947 former owner.
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Williamson, C. D. R. former owner.
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Manley Sims, F. former owner.
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Bain, James bookseller.
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Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, 1852 - 1930 Viscount former owner.
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Walpole, Hugh, 1884 - 1941 Sir former owner.
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Baddeley, John F. (John Frederick), 1854 - 1940 former owner.
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Baddeley, W. St. Clair (Welbore St. Clair), 1856 - 1945 former owner.
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Cambridge University Press printer.
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Riviere & Son bookbinder.
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England Cambridge.
Identifier
B45253