Shelfmark
Kp.5.48
Additional shelfmark
Kp.5.49 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Kp.5.50 (Copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
Kp.5.51 (Copy 4)
Author
Title
Ionica.
Edition
[Second edition]
Publication, distribution, etc.
London and Orpington : George Allen, 1891.
Physical description
[4], viii, 209, [3] p. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Note
Large paper issue (lacking edition statement) of the second, completely reset edition of the first collected edition published in the same year.
Note
Printed on hand-made paper with conspicuous deckle edges.
Note
Printer statement on final leaf: Printed by Ballantyne Hanson & Co. London and Edinburgh.
Note
First leaf is blank; second leaf carries statement of limitation to 100 copies (each numbered in ink).
Note
On the title-page "Ionica" is printed in red.
Note
Publisher's parchment half-binding ; light blue cloth boards ; gilt spine title.
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 1] Armorial bookplate of Eton College Library; note inside front cover recording "Bought 1898".
Provenance
[Copy 2] Armorial bookplate of Oliver Brett.
Provenance
[Copy 3] Booklabel of John Waynflete Carter.
Binding
[Copies 1-3] Original publisher's binding.
Binding
[Copy 4] As ECL copies 1-3 but with dark blue cloth boards and spine title closer to top of spine.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Copy no. 35.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Copy no. 6. Unopened.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 3] Copy no. 66. Annotated throughout by John Carter. Insertions: (1) photocopy of a Cory poem titled "Lacordaire at Oxford" dated 1863, with note by Carter "another MS, ex 'Chat', Sothebys 1969"; (2) bifolium with mourning border and ms. text of two poems, "Vale for F. P[elham], Election 1863" and "A Vale. Eton July 1864", in an unidentified hand; (3) carbon copy of TL from John Carter, 11 August 1969, offering sets of photostats of the notebooks containing the mss. of the poems in "Ionica" and "Ionica II" on behalf of Sir Ralph Furse to the library of the British Museum, and noting that similar sets were offered to Eton College Library, King's College Cambridge, and Harvard; (4) sheet of notes of poems omitted in the hand of J. P. Muirhead; (5) bifolium with ms. text of "Vale for F. Pelham" in unidentified hand.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 4] Copy no. 45. Inscription on blank first leaf: "M.R.J[ames]. from EWS [possibly E. W. Stone], Christmas 1901". Inscription on facing endpaper: "Kenneth Rose, 1958". Given to ECL by Kenneth Rose.
Subject
English poetry 19th century.
Added entry--name
Brett, Oliver former owner.
Added entry--name
Carter, John, 1905 - 1975 former owner.
Added entry--name
James, M.R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862 - 1936 former owner.
Added entry--name
Stone, Edward Wellington inscriber.
Added entry--name
Rose, Kenneth, 1924 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
George Allen publisher.
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Ballantyne, Hanson and Co. printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Added entry--place
England Orpington.
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Scotland Edinburgh.
Identifier
B45341