Shelfmark
Kp.5.27
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Kp.5.28 (Copy 2)
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Kp.5.29 (Copy 3)
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Kp.5.30 (Copy 4)
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Kp.5.31 (Copy 5)
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Kp.5.32 (Copy 6)
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Kp.5.33 (Copy 7)
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Kp.5.34 (Copy 8)
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Kp.5.52 (Copy 9)
Author
Cory, William Johnson, 1823 - 1892
Title
Ionica.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London ; Orpington : George Allen, 1891.
Physical description
[2], vi, 210 p. ; 17 cm.
Note
First collected edition. "Ionica" first published in 1858; "Ionica II" first published in 1877.
Note
Printer statement on p. 210: Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.
Note
Initial leaf is blank. Most copies include a one-line erratum slip making a correction to line 1 of p. 149.
Note
This edition was followed in the same year by a second, not reprinted from standing type but set up afresh by a different printer. The second edition was also issued in a large paper issue omitting the edition statement.
Note
In this edition the imprint includes the publisher's address in London and Orpington, and the titles are in gothic type.
Note
See Carter, Hand-list, p. 84 for comparison of the contents of the separate and collected editions.
Note
Publisher's light blue cloth binding with blind fillet border ; title and publisher blocked in gilt on spine with gilt bands at head and foot.
Citation/references note
Carter, J. Hand-list of the printed works of William Johnson, afterwards Cory (Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society ; 1, 1949), 21
Provenance
[Copy 2] Inscribed by Cory to M[r] Drummond [i.e. Algernon Heneage Drummond, composer of the Eton Boating Song], 1891, with tipped-in ALS dated 10 January 1891 with criticisms of the printing and enclosing the errata slip with a further correction in Cory's hand, and three others in an unidentified hand. Loosely inserted ALS from Mortimer Drummond (grandson of Algernon Heneage Drummond) to Michael Meredith dated Fareham, 3 February 1975, presenting this copy and the copy of the second edition (ECL copy 4) formerly belonging to A. H. Drummond's eldest daughter Barbara to the library.
Provenance
[Copy 3] Initialled in ink: ELV, i.e. E. L. Vaughan.
Provenance
[Copy 4] Inscribed to "Percy Furnivall from his father", 7 January 1891, with note in same hand: "This book is by my old friend W[illia]m Cory (formerly Wm Johnson, the best master of his time at Eton)", initialled F.J.F. [i.e. Fredrick James Furnivall]. Booklabel of John Carter.
Provenance
[Copy 5] Inscribed by C[harles] W[ellington] Furse as "the brother of the author" to R. Henn Collins, 21 March 1891.
Provenance
[Copy 6] Inscribed in pencil: A. E. Buckhurst from C. Davis, Dec 1906.
Provenance
[Copy 7] Red and black booklabel of Eton College Library with ms. note "given by Mr G. Madan".
Provenance
[Copy 8] Armorial bookplate of F. Manley Sims and circular ink stamp of Manley Sims Eton Collection.
Provenance
[Copy 9] Purchased by ECL in 2017. From the library of Sir Henry Newbolt, with his pencilled ownership inscription 'H.J. Newbolt. 14.1.91. from E.' (possibly Ella Coltman?).
Binding
[Copies 1-7] Original publisher's binding.
Binding
[Copy 8] 19th century teal calf half-binding ; marbled paper boards ; five raised bands ; gilt spine title ; marbled endpapers. Binder's stamp of Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly.
Binding
[Copy 9] Early 20th-century dark green morocco ; upper cover decorated with floral design in gilt with light and dark blue morocco onlays ; matching dark green morocco doublures with gilt fillets ; gilt spine title ; marbled endpapers ; gilt text block edges.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Loosely inserted postcard from "EW", identified in accompanying letter from Mortimer Drummond as Algernon Heneage Drummond's cousin Evelyn Wodehouse.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 3] Marks of emphasis in pencil and ms. note at end with reference to 20 new poems in this edition and list of poems in the previous editions of pts. 1 and 2 omitted in this edition.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 4] Lacking the errata slip (correction in ink). Annotations in ?Furnivall's hand inside lower cover.
Copy-specific note
[Copies 5 and 6] Annotation in John Carter's hand: "first collected ed."
Copy-specific note
[Copy 7] Former shelfmark: Lobby B5.16.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 9] With Sir Henry Newbolt's ms. transcription of Cory's 16-line verses 'To R.B.B.' in ink facing the title page; seven pencilled additions in Newbolt's hand to the tipped-in erratum slip and corresponding marginal amendments in the text; Newbolt's pencil notes on final blank leaf recording Cory's remarks on the Parthenon ('Rubbish! ...') and the Watts view of art ('Nonsense! ...'); bound in at the end is 'Ionicus' (p. [71]-72) from Newbolt's collection 'The island race' (1898).
Subject
English poetry 19th century.
Added entry--name
Drummond, Algernon. former owner.
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Vaughan, E. L. (Edward Littleton) former owner.
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Furnivall, F. J., 1825 - 1910 Frederick James associated name.
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Furnivall, Percy, 1868 - ? former owner.
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Carter, John, 1905 - 1975 former owner.
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Furse, Charles Wellington, 1868 - 1904 associated name.
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Collins, Richard Henn, 1842 - 1911 former owner.
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Madan, Geoffrey, 1895 - 1947 donor.
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Manley Sims, F. former owner.
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Newbolt, Henry John, 1862 - 1938 former owner.
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Coltman, Ella. associated name.
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Fergusson, James bookseller.
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George Allen publisher.
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Hazell, Watson & Viney printer.
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Hatchards bookbinder.
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England London.
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England Orpington.
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England Aylesbury.
Identifier
B45307