Colby Quarterly

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May 1948

"With Admiration and Love"

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"WITH ADMIRATION AND LOVE" ACK in 1893, Edwin Arlington Robinson agreed to lend a highly prized book to his friend Harry De­ B Forest Smith (Bowdoin, '91). In sending it, Robin­ son wrote: "Be as careful as possible of the book, for I think a great deal of it.... You have no idea how much associa­ tions are to me. Some little thing, almost ridiculous in it­ self, acquires a value in my eyes that sometimes makes me ashamed of myself." The lVIaine poet is not the only one who has ever felt embarrassed by his sentimental attachment to "some little thing." We all do. Yet as long as human friendships con­ tinue, books that are associated with those friendships ,viII not cease to "acquire a value." As John "r. Winterich puts it, "everyone who owns books ... owns association copies. ... It may be a prize won at school. It may be ... a book that has felt the touch of a loved but vanished hand.... It may have been a faithful companion on a far journey. Once removed from the protection of a hand that loves them, association copies of this class are obviously of little value. But consider such association books as the follow­ ing: Shakespeare's copy of Florio's translation of Mon­ taigne's essays, with Shakespeare's autograph on the fly­ leaf ... [or] the copy of Keats's Lamia which was found in Shelley's pocket after his body had been recovered from the sea; [or] the Yellow Book from which Browning created The Ring and the Book Here are association books of obvious, enduring, and universal interest."l

1 A Primer oj Book-Collecting by John T. Winterich and David A. Randall (New York, 1946),45-46.

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86 Colby Library Quarterly Of the enduring and mounting value of this in­ terest, one illustration may be given. In 1813 the poet Shel­ ley had a small edition of Queen Mab printed, for private distribution. One of the copies he eventually gave to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, and in it he subsequently wrote: "You see, Mary, I have not forgotten you." In 1816 they were married, and two years later, when they left England for Italy, Mrs. Shelley carried the Queen l\![ab witll her. The poet died in 1821. Upon Mrs. Shelley's death thirty years later, her copy of Queen ]\![ab passed into other hands and in 1888 it was bought for $100 by.General Brayton Ives. In 1891 he sold it for $190 to Charles W. Frederickson, a cotton broker of American Civil War fame. After his death (in May 1897), his library was sold at auction and the Queen Mab was bought for $650 by Harry B. Smith, who made it a part of his famous "Sentimental Library." About the time of World War I, Dr. i-\. 8. ,tV. Rosenbach bought this library en bloc, and shortly sold the Queen Mab (along with other volumes) to William K. Bixby of St. Louis for $12,500. Bixby in turn sold the book in 1918 to Henry E. Huntington, and it is 110W in the Library at San Marino which Mr. Huntington turned over to the public in 1920. He was once quoted as having said: "The ownership of a fine library is the surest and swiftest way to immortality." The Queen Mab is only one of many association-volumes that help to make the California collection "a fine library.H Henry E. Huntington would not have called the Colby College Library'''a fine library," but it lIas its own modest share of association books. No attempt has been made to collect at Waterville a Sentimental Library along Harry B. Smith lines, but the sentimental interest of many of its volumes is not the less "obvious and enduring." Until this year no effort had been made to assemble these association books, either for exhibition or for listing; but the following descriptive check-list of a representative selection of Colby's sentimental items has now been prepared to ac­ company an exhibition of the books, and is here offered for your information.

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1. ABBOTT, JACOB: The Corner-Stone. Boston: William l>eirce, 1834. First Edition; gray-green cloth; with pre­ sentation inscription to: "Miss Mary H. Merrick with the sincere regards of the Author." In 1835 this book became the object of an attack by the Rev. J. H. (later Cardinal) Newman. When Tract 73 appeared at Oxford, en­ titled "On the Introduction of Rationalistic Principles into Reli­ gion," The Corner-Stone was charged with "savoring unpleasantly of pantheism." Abbott later became well-known as the author of the "Abbott Histories" and as the creator of Little Rollo. 2. AIKEN, CONRAD: Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry. New York: Knopf, 1919. First Edition; red cloth; presentation copy given by the author to Edwin Arling­ ton Robinson, to whom there are fifteen references in the book (indexed on page 304). On the front fly-leaf there is this certificate: "This book was given to me by Edwin Arlington Robinson in the summer of 1919. It was a presen­ tation copy, sent him by the author. Esther 'Villard Bates." With Miss Bates's book-plate. 3...,A.LDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY: Flou1er and Thorn. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1882. Fourth edition; copper­ colored cloth; with inscription: "Take them and keep them, silvery thorn and flower, .... T. B. Aldrich. Christ­ nlas 1881." Presented by Mr. Talbot Aldrich. 4. ALDRICH, THOl\1AS BAILEY: The Story oj a Bad Boy. A llew edition illustrated by A. B. Frost, with a new Preface (dated 1894 from "The Crags," Tenant's Harbor, ). Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1895. Gray cloth; top edges gilt. Aldrich's own copy, with his black-crow-and­ clown's-mask book-plate. On February 16, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote to his friend Harry DeForest Smith: "I hope you may find something better than Aldrich's for a book-plate." This book was presented by Aldrich to his Rockland (Maine) friend, William O. Fuller (M. Litt., Colby, 1929). Fuller's autograph appears on page 286, with his record of hav­ ing first read this story in Our Young Folks in 1869, and of having read it in this copy in 1904, in 1908, and again in September 1932-"the story as fresh today as then, and even more enjoyed." 5. ALLEN, HERVEY: Anthony Adverse. New York: Farrar

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88 Colby Library Quarterly '& Rinehart, Ig33. First Edition; blue cloth; inscribed: "To E. A. Robinson, Esq. Dear Robinson: With profound best wishes and cordial regards. Hervey Allen." Given by Rob­ inson to his friend George Burnham (see Numbers 22 and 85 below), and by Mr. Burnham bequeathed to the Colby College Library. 6. ARCHER, WILLIAM: Play-Making: A Manual of Cra:fts­ manship. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., Ig12. First Edi­ tion; green cloth; top edges gilt. This copy once belonged to W. S. Braithwaite and carries his autograph 011 the front fly-leaf. Braithwaite is identified by Robinson's biographer Hagedorn as the author of the first and most penetrating review of The Town down the River (1910). This review led the poet to hunt up his reviewer, whom he found to be "a man of unusual perceptivity." In the Boston Public Library, they "laid the foundations of a friendship." Two years later, Braith,vaite gave this book to Robinson, whose interest in play-writing once led him to say: "When I die, they ought to put D.D. -Defeated Dramatist-on my tombstone." (See Colby College Mono­ graph No. II.) 7. ARNOLD, THOMAS: A Manual oj English Literature. London: Longmal1s, Green, & Co., 1867. Brown cloth. Thomas Arnold was the younger brother of Matthew i\rnold, father of Mrs. Humphry Ward, and grandfather of Aldous Huxley and Julian Huxley. This book was pre­ sented to: "T. Hardy from lVIr. Sergeant .Lt\tkinsol1," in 1873. With Thomas Hardy's Max Gate book-label. 8. AUSTEN, JANE: Mansfield Park. New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 18go. Three-quarters maroon cloth. E. A. Robinson's copy, with his autograph-an unusual one in two respects:" his first name is signed in full: "Edwin A. Robinson, Nov. 18g1," and the handwriting is large and fluent, not the microscopic half-illegible scratclling to which Robinson later came. This book is the second of the three Jane Aus­ ten novels which Robinson studied at Harvard. g. AUSTEN, JANE: Pride and Prejudice. New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 18go. Three-quarters maroon cloth. Auto­ ,graph on the front fly-leaf by the poet: "Edwin A. Robin­ :son, Oct. 18g1," shortly after his enrollment at Harvard.

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Robinson nlade frequent references to Jane Austen in his corre:. spondence at this time. On November 22, 18g1,he wrote to Harry DeForest Smith: "I have to write an essay next week on Jane Austen." On November 2g he wrote: "Jane Austen has been taking up my time of late. Have read Pride and Prejudice, Man.ifield Park, and ... al­ most all of Persuasion." On December 8: "At last I am through with that most estimable lady, Jane Austen." 10. BALLARD, FRED: Ladies of the Jury. r\ Comedy in Three Acts. New York: Samuel French, 1931. Green cloth; black spine. Inscribed by the author: "Christmas Greet­ ings to E. A. Robinson, froln Willsie and Fred Ballard. Peterborough 1931." Ballard was also the author of Be­ lieve Me) Xantippe and Young America. 11. BARNES, WILLIAM: Select Poems chosen and edited with a preface and glossarial notes by Thomas Hardy. Lon­ don: Henry Frowde, 1908. First Edition.; greel1 cloth; top edges gilt. Sir Walter Raleigh, of Oxford University, persuaded Hardy to edit this volume of the poems of William Barnes; it was published in the same year in which the publication of The Dynasts w'as completed. This copy of the book was acquired by I-Iardy's friend and admirer A. 1\1:. Broadley, of The Knapp, Bradpole, and bears his book-plate. Broadley had reviewed The Dynasts in the London Tatler shortly be­ fore the publication of this book. 12. BATES, KATHARINE LEE: Christmas Before and After [December 1926?J. Reprinted as a pamphlet from the Vir­ ginia Quarterly Review for January 19 2 7, where the article appeared under title "A Marchpane for Christmas." In­ scribed: "V\lith Christmas Greetings from Katharine Lee Bates" to Lilla Cabot Perry (d. 1933), niece of James Rus­ sell Lowell. This is one of the last articles written by the author of America the Beautiful. She died in 1929. 13. BEEBE, LUCIUS 1f.: Corydon and Other Poems. Boston: B. J. Brimmer Co., 1924. First Edition; gray boards; in­ scribed to: "Edwin ....t\rlington Robinson, in respect and admiration, Lucius Beebe, Cambridge 1924." (See No. 59 below.) 14. BENET, WILLIAM ROSE: The Dust which is God. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1942 • Third printing; light

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go Colby Library Quarterly brown cloth; inscribed by the author on the front fly-leaf: "For Miss Elizabeth Manwaring, with the best wishes of \J\Tilliam Rose Benet. November 1942." Miss l\tIanwaring is the author of Italian Landscape in Eighteenth Century England (1928). 15. BESTON, HENRY: A'merican Memory. New York: Far­ rar & Rinehart, 1937. Autographed by the compiler on the fly-leaf: "Very faithfully yours, Henry Beston." Presented by Miss Rosalind Richards, author of A Northern Country­ side (New York, 1916). 16. BESTON, HENRY: Herbs and the Earth. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1940. Autographed by the author on the front fly-leaf: "Very faithfully yours, Henry Beston.'· Presented by Miss Rosalind Richards, daughter of Mrs. Laura E. Richards. (See No. 82.) 17. BETTS, CRAVEN L.: Songs from Beranger. New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1893. Dedicated "To Edmund Clarence Stedman." Second edition; cream-colored cloth gilt; top edges gilt; inscribed: "From C. L. Betts to his friend E. A. Robinson. June 20th, '98. Arcades Ambo." 18. BOWDITCH, MRS. ERNEST: The Jewett Library [a de­ scription of the library and houle of Sarah Orne Jewett, illustrated with photographs by the author]. No date [about 1932]. Florentine leather. Presented by Mrs. Bow­ ditch to Mrs. Laura E. Richards, and inscribed by l\1rs. Richards: "to the Library of Colby College, in the hope that this reminder of a gracious and scholarly Past may be an inspiration for the students of the Future. Laura E. Richards, Gardiner, Maine. October 14, 1942." 19. BRADFORD, GAMALIEL: The Quick and the Dead. Bos­ ton: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1931. First Edition; red cloth; one of 200 copies bound uncut an,d autographed by the author: "Gamaliel Bradford." This copy is again auto­ graphed on the front fly-leaf and inscribed to: "Edwin Arlington Robinson witll the best wishes of Gamaliel Bradford. March 3, 193 1." 20. BRIDGES, ROBERT: Bramble Brae. New York: Charles

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Colby Library Quarterly 91 Scribners' Sons, 1902. Red cloth; top edges gilt; inscribed: "To E. A. Robinson with the regards of Robert Bridges. July 1905·" 21. BROWN, ROLLO "V.: The FiJ·emakers. New York: Co'\v­ ard-McCann, 1931. Inscribed: "To Edwin ..-\rlington Rob­ inson, With every good wish, as always. Rollo Walter Bro'\vn. September 4, 1931." Bro"vn's association with Rob­ inson in the MacDo,vell Colony at Peterborough, New Hampshire, in 1923, is reported by Brown in Next Door to a Poet. 22. BROWN, ROLLO WALTER: Next DOD'r to a Poet. New York: D. i\ppleton-Century Co., 1937. First Edition; green cloth; inscribed: "To George Burnham, for whom E. A. always expressed tIle devotion of a brother, '\vith all good wishes. Rollo Walter Brown. 1937." 23. BROWNING, ROBERT: Complete Poetic a'orks. Boston: HoughtOll, Mifflin & Co., n.d. [1895]. Red cloth; top edges gilt; inscribed to: "Edwin A. Robinson from Laura E. Richards. 1898." For years Robinson had wanted to own a Browning. On April 15, 1894, he wrote to his friend Smith: "This is a magnificent Sunday. ...A book would be good-Views & Reviews if we had it, or better still, a volume of Browning. I think I have found your poet in Brown, ing ... and I am anxious for you to read him I mean to acquire them [his books] at the earliest opportunity. I have held great ses- sions ... [with his] more familiar short poems." 24. BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN: ,Poems. N'ew York: D. Appleton & Co., 1856. Orange cloth; all edges gilt; second issue of the revised edition of 1854. This was Oliver Wen­ dell Holmes's copy and bears his autograph: "0. W. Holmes, Boston," as well as his "chambered nautilus" book-plate. 25. BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD: U'orks. London: John Murray, 1903. Seven volumes; bright blue cloth, gilt; top edges gilt. Inscribed: "Thomas Hardy from Florence Hardy. July 1917." Florence Hardy was the novelist-poet's second wife. The books have Hardy's l\tIax Gate book­ label.

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92 Colby Library Quarterly 26. CARLYLE, THOMAS: Sartor Resartus. London: Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1896. Green cloth; top edges gilt; in­ scribed to: teJ. W. Marr from E. A. Robinson. March 1897." Robinson had been an admirer of Carlyle for some years before pur­ chasing this book and giving it to his Waterville friend Marr. On March 10, 1891, Robinson wrote to his friend Smith (then a student at Bowdoin): "I am reading Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and am completely soaked with its fiery philosophy. It is just the book for you to read.... There is a certain half-diabolical humor running through [it] that renders it all the more readable." Presented to the Colby College Li­ brary by Miss Helen Marr. 27. CHAUCER: The Prologue . .. from The Canterbury Tales. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886. Once the property of Pro­ fessor Harry DeForest Smith of Amherst, with his auto­ graph: "Harry Smith, Bowdoin '91." Presented by Smith to Edwin Arlington Robinson. 28. CICERO: Orations [in Latin]. London: Thomas Wil­ liams, 1664. Bound with SALLUST: History oj Catiline's Con­ spiracy. Louvain: Jacob Heyberger, 1572. Thick 16mo; old calf; once the property of the poet William Words­ worth. "William Cookson" (Wordsworth's maternal grandfather) written on the rear fly-leaf; "W.Wordsworth" autographed on title-page.

29. COLLINS, WILKIE: The l\JoonstoneJ with an introduc­ tion by T. S. Eliot. Oxford University Press [1928]. Blue cloth; inscribed to: "George Burnham from E. A. Robin­ son. April 17, 1930." Bequeathed by Mr. Burnham to the Colby College Library. 30. COTILE, JOSEPH: Alfred} an Epic Poem. Newburyport: W. B. Allen & Co., 1814. First American Edition; brown calf; 2 vols. in one; autographed "Jere. Chaplin. 1826." The first president of Colby College was Jeremiah Chaplin, who presented this book to the "Literary Fraternity" of t.he college in 1827. Joseph Cottle is best kno'wn to fame for having sponsored the Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798. Wordwol·th's biographer G. MeL. Harper says of Cottle: "The pride of his life was to have been one of the early friends and helpers of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey." 31. DANTE: The Divine Comedy} translated by Henry W.

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Colby Library Quarterly 93 Longfellow. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1891. Green cloth; top edges gilt; inscribed to: "E. A. Robinson with cordial regards of I. Mowry Saben. 16 Hastings, March 9, '93." Saben was Robinson's classmate at Harvard; he later became editor of The Argonaut in San Francisco. On November 11, 1894, Robinson wrote to H. DeF. Smith: "Yester­ day I read a while in Longfellow's Dante. ... I cannot call his transla- tion anything but a dismal failure; but then ... I won't worry because Longfellow doesn't suit me I am getting more finical." But Robinson's Harvard classmate James L. Tryon remembered (and on April 16, 1940, told a Colby audience) that Robinson would, in his Harvard days, often quote Longfellow, and would repeat, quite "apart from their context, as if he [Robinson] ""ere reflecting upon the voice of destiny," Longfellow's lines Better like Hector in the field to die Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly. (See Hal"Vard Days with Edwin Arlington Robinson by James L. Tryon; Waterville: Colby Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 1940.) 32. DIBDEN, THOJVIAS F.: Bibliographical Decameron. Lon­ don: W. Bulmer & Co., 1817. Three vols.; brown calf; all edges gilt. The author was a famous bibliographer, book­ purchasing agent for the third Earl Spencer (owner of the rich library at Althorp), and founder (in 1812) of the Rox­ burghe Club. Ex Libris Sir Robert Peel, Bart. It has not been ascertained whether these books belonged to the first Robert Peel, who was made a baronet in 1800, or to the second Robert Peel, the great statesman and Parliamentary leader, who sue· ceeded to the baronetcy in 1830-more likely to the latter. 33. DR1NKWATER, JOHN: Poems I908-I 9I ,9. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., [1919]. Crimson boards; in­ scribed: "To Edwin i\rlington Robinson with deep ad­ miration from John Drinkwater. New York, Feb'y 26, 1920." 34. ELIOT, GEORGE: The Life '?f Jesus) translated from the fourth German Edition of Dr. David Friedrich Strauss. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1898. Third edition; green cloth; with book-label: "From the Library of Thom­ as lIardy, O.M., Max Gate." Despite the remarks of William R. Rutland, on page 106 of his Thomas Hardy (Oxford 1938), regarding Hardy's zealous use of this

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volume, the top edges of this 784-paged book are still unopened be­ yond page 178. In This Book-Collecting Game (Boston, 1928) A. Ed· ward Newton reluarked: "If Thomas Hardy had had the inspiration to write a book about the life of Christ, ... we should have had the greatest piece of pessimism in any language." The unopened pages of this volume encourage skepticism on this point. 35. EMERSON, RALPH WALDO: The Method oj Nature. " ..A.n Oration delivered ... in Waterville College, in Maine, Au­ gust 11, 1841." Boston: Samuel G. Simpkins, 1841. First Edition; brown paper wrappers. When Carlyle received from Emerson a copy of this oration, the Scot replied: "I do again desiderate some concretion of these beautiful abstracta. It seems to me they will never be right otherwise." (See Colby Mercury, April 1, 1934; pages 41-45.) 36. EMERSON, RALPI-I WALDO: Poems. ,Boston: Hough­ ton, Mifflin & Co., 18g8. New and revised edition; blue cloth; top edges gilt; inscribed to: "G. E. Burnham, From E. A. Robinson. 1 June 18g8." Bequeathed by George Burnham (1867-194°) to the Colby College Library. 37. EUSTACE, JOHN C.: A Classical Tour through Italy. London: Thomas Tegg, 1841. Eigh.th edition; 3 vols.; blue cloth. Bought by Charles Dickens in Edinburgh, shortly before his 1844 trip to Italy; with his tail-waving-lion book-plate, and with the book-label: "From the Library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, JUl1e, 1870." Later in the Dickens Collection of William o. Fuller (~1.Litt., Colby, 1929). 38. FEUERBACH, LUDWIG: Das Wesen des Christenthums. Leipzig: Otto ''\ligand, 1849. Third edition; three-quarters black morocco. 's copy, with his underlin­ ings and marginal marks (pages 6-119) and a marginal note in his hand (pages 52-53). 3g. FIELDING, HENRY: Joseph Andrews. London: Rout­ ledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1861. Three~quarters plum­ colored calf. With the book-label "From the Library of Thomas Hardy, O.M., Max Gate." With Hardy's margi­ nal markings on three or four pages (see Colby Library Quarterly, January 1944, pages 82-83).

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Colby Library Quarterly 95 40. FREEMAN, JOHN: The ]\tfoderns: Essays in Literary CTiticisrn. London: Robert Scott, 1916. Blue cloth. Chap­ ters on Josepl1 Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and others. With a book-label: "From the Library of Joseph Conrad." 41. HAGEDORN, HERMANN: ~4 Troop oj the Guard and Other Poems. Boston: Houghton, Mifllin & Co., 1909. Blue cloth; inscribed: "To E. A. Robinson with the deep ad­ miration ('And he had reasons') of Hermann Hagedorn. Chocorua [N. H.], Aug. '10." After Robinson's death Hage­ dorn wrote a biography of the poet to whom he had given this book. 42. HARDY, THOMAS: Domicilium. "The earliest discov­ erable poem written by Mr. Thomas Hardy ... written be­

tween 1857 and 1860 ....H One of twenty-five copies "pri­ vately printed by Clement Shorter for distribution among his friends." First Edition, April 5, 1916; purple wrappers. Autographed [by Shorter] on the title-page: "J.D. [John Drinkwater] from C. K. S. [Clement K. Shorter] Jan. 24. 1923." Certified by'Drinkwater on the front fly-leaf: "The first edition, perfect. One of 25 copies printed by Shorter and giv~n to me by him. John Drinkwater. 1923." ''\TitI1 Drinkwater's gilt book-plate. 43. HARDY, THOMAS: Far from the Madding. Crowd. Lon­ don: Macmillal1 & Co., 1912. Volume II of the London Wes­ sex Edition of Hardy's Works; maroon cloth. Inscribed by the author to his second wife: "To Florence Emily Hardy from Thomas Hardy." Mrs. Hardy never cut open the pages of this book and they remain unopened to this day. 44. HARDY, THOMAS: A Group oj Noble Dames. London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1891. First Edition; tan-colored cloth. This copy was bOllght by St. Loe Strachey (1860­ 1926), London editor and proprietor of The Spectator, and bears his autograph on the fly-leaf. Strachey was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, the college which Hardy lampooned in Jude the Obscure; in 1896-1897 he edited The Cornhill in which Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd had ap­ peared; and he later acquired (and edited) The Spectator, which in

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1871 had condemned Hardy's Desperate Remedies, that "absolutely anonymous story" which Hardy 'was urged to "bury ... out of reach) jf.possible, of his own consciousness." '; 45. HARDY, THOMAS: The Afayor oj Casterbridge. Lon­ don: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887. "New Edition," red cloth. Autographed: "r\.t Max Gate. Thomas Hardy." With the name ofthe former owner,added inherownh.and: "Miss Rebekah Owen, August 5,1892." On this day Rebekah Owen of New York City called on Hardy; she later persuaded him to change the end of the novel. He made the change in 1895 and stated in the preface that he did so "at the instance of some good judges across the Atlantic." III this copy Miss O,ven records her identifica­ tion of herse~f and her sister as the "good judges." 46. HARDY, THOMAS: The Mayor oj Casterbridge. New York: F. M. Lupton, n.d. [1888?] Gray cloth. This copy was acquired by Dr. A. T. Schumann of Gardiner, Maine, and carries his autograph in pencil on the fly-leaf. Early in 1891 he lent the book to Edwin Arlington Robinson, who (on February 8) wrote: "It was a revelation to me ...such power ... [and] incident ... as well as the wonderful style in which it is written." 47. HARDY, THo~1As: 1ne ]\;[ayor oj Casterbridge. Lon­ don: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, n.d. [1890]' With a book-label: "From the Library oj A. E. Hous­ MAN." With Housman's marginal query on page 340 (see The Bulletin oj the Maine Library Association, May 1942). 48. HARDY, THOMAS: A Pair of Blue Eyes. Pages ex­ cerpted from Tinsleys' Magazine~ September 1872-July 1873; with illustrations by E. Evans. Ex Libris Christopher S. Millard, the Oscar Wilde bibliographical expert, and Jerome Kern, the song-\vriter, with the latter's green­ leather lute-and-oboe'book-plate. 49. HARDY, THOMAS: A Pair oj Blue Eyes. London: Mac­ millan & Co., 1920. Two vols., blue cloth; gilt medallion. Volulnes 16 and 17 of the "Mellstock Edition" of the 'Works-of Thomas Hardy (37vols. in all). One of500 copies.

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This copy was Hardy's own. In it he has written (on the front fly­ leaf) "The proofs were not read further than p. 48 of this vol." He also noted "Errata: pp. 24, 71, 102." In this novel he made use of some incidents of his own romance with Miss Gifford in Cornwall in 1870. The novel was thus forever associated in his mind with the early days of that love-affair, and he once wrote to his publisher: "There are circumstances in connection with A Pair oj Blue Eyes which make me anxious to favour it, even at the expense of profit, if I can possibly do so." When the 37 volumes of this set of the Mellstock Edition reached the Colby College Library, A Pair oj Blue Eyes was the only novel the pages of which Hardy had cut open all the way through the book. 50. HARDY, THOMAS: Poems of the Past and the Present. Londol1: Harper al1d Brothers, 1902. First Edition; white buckram "presentation format," all edges gilt. This copy was acquired by A. Edward Newton, Hardy's great ad­ mirer in Pennsylvania, and bears Newton's famous Tem­ ple Bar book-plate. "A book that has occupied a place in a famous library is worth, for that reason, a place in a hUITLble collection, and will distinguish it. ... A book fronl the A. Edward Newton or Frank B. Bemis libraries gains in value from the mere fact of containing the bookplate which identi­ fied it as having been a unit in those libraries."-Winterich & Ran­ dall: A Primer oj Book-Collecting (New York, 1946), pp. 51-52. 51. HARDY, THOMAS: The Three Wayfarers) play in one act, dramatized from The Three Strangers [at. the suggestion of J. M. Barrie]; illustrated by William H. Cotton. New York: The Fountain Press, 1930. Blue cloth gilt; half red calf; top edges gilt. One of 54 2 copies printed at The Merrymount Press, Boston; book design by Daniel B. U p­ dike. This copy presented to "John Drinkwater from Flor­ ence Hardy"; inscription in the hand of the second Mrs. Hardy, and annotated "Xmas 1931" by Drinkwater; with his red-stamped initials "J.D." 52. HARDY, THOMAS: Twoona Tower. New York: Hoven­ don & Co., n.d. Green cloth; top edges gilt. Julia Mar­ lowe's copy, inscribed to: "Julia, from l\tIildred. June 19, 1893." Colby also has Julia Marlowe's LOpy of Hardy's A Pair oj Blue Eyes. 53. HARDY, THOMAS: Wessex Tales. London: Macmillan &Co., 1888. First Edition, 2 vals.; green cloth. Inscribed on

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98 Colby Library Quarterly the half-title of Vol. I: "To Robert Brovvning Esq., D.C.L., from Thomas Hardy. May 1888." A letter in the Harvard Library indicates that Hardy gave these books to Brown­ ing on the latter's birthday. At the sale of the Browning library in 1913, these/books were acquired by Paul Len1p­ erly; and after the sale of his library in 1940 they were presented to the Colby College Library by 1\11'. and Mrs. H. B. Collamore. 54. HARDY, THO'MAS: Wessex Tales. London: Macmillan & Co., 1889. First one-volume edition; red cloth. Auto­ graphed on the title-page: "Yours faithfully Thomas Hardy." Autographed by the former owner on the front fly-leaf: "Rebekah Owen, Casterbridge, October 24, 18g2." The fourth story in this book is "Interlopers at the Knap." j\t page 159 Dairyman Johns climbs a sign-post on a dark night and strikes a match to read the sign, but finds "not a letter" to tell him the ·way. Miss Owen's autograph note records Hardy's statement: "It was D1Y father who ... was obliged to climb the guide-post ... , finding nothing." At page 169 the text reads: "Susannah ... assisted at the dairy." The association-interest of this book will be increased by comparing the text here with the same passage in later editions, pub­ lished after Hardy had met the former owner of this book. In later editions, "Rebekah ... assisted at the dairy." 55. HARDY, THOMAS: The TiVoodlanders. London: Mac­ millan & Co., 1887. "Macmillan's Colonial Library, No. 4g." Ex Libris Carroll Atwood Wilson (Colby, LL.D., 1940 ; d. 1947). A. note attached to the book states: ""I'his item is probably unique. It is one of six copies bound in smooth green cloth, printed on fine, thin paper ... , apparently a trial copy ... for the Colonial edition." 56. HARRIS, FRANK: Oscar Wilde~ his Life and Confessions. New York: Printed and Published by the Author, 1918. Two vols., green cloth. Inscribed: "To Mrs. vVinnifred H. Cooley, frqm her friend, the author, Frank Harris. Ig1g." 'tVith a letter to "Dear Mrs. Winnifred Harper Cooley" signed "Frank Harris," dated 7 July 1927, tipped in. 57. HAWTI-IORNE, NATHANIEL: The Marble Faun. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1860. Two volumes, first edition; brown cloth.

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On page ix Hawthorne tells how he "laid felonious hands upon a certain bust of Milton ... which he found [in Rome] in the studio of Mr. Paul Akers." And on page 150 Hawthorne describes the "grand, calm head of Milton, not copied from anyone bust or picture, yet more authentic than any of them." In 1889 Houghton, Mifflin & Co. published a Large Paper limited edition of The Marble Faun (Colby has No. 23 of the 150 copies printed). The Publishers' Advertisement stated that "ever since the first publication of The Marble Faun, travellers have used the book as a souvenir, and ... it early became the custom ... to collect photo­ graphs of the statues ... and to interleave the book with them...." This copy of the first edition is shown, with Chapter 13 illustrated, not by a "print" or photograph of the bust of Milton, but by the ac­ tual marble sculptured by Paul Akers. The bust was presented by Boston Colby alumni; the books were presented by T. Raymond Pierce, '98. 58. HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST: In Hospital: Rhymes and Rhythms. Portland, IVlaine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. One of 950 copies; gray boards. This copy was inscribed by the author to "R. E. Raymond from his friend of many years, '!\T. E. Henley. London Eng[land], June 10, 19°3." Pre­ sented to the Colby College Library by Edward F. Stevens, '89· On April 15, 1894, Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote to H. DeF. Smith: "I cannot join you in your depreciation of Mr. Mosher's book­ nlaking.... [His book] is a jewel of workmanship in my eyes, and puts the Riverside Press to shame...." 59. HOMER: Iliad and Odyssey) in Greek, edited with Notes in Latin and a Latin translation by Corn. Schreve­ lius. Leyden: Francis Hackius, 1656. Two volumes bound in one; quarto; all edges gilt. Inscribed to: "Edwin Arling­ ton Robinson from Lucius Beebe, 1928." The associations that center in this volume are numerous, varied, and rich. 'The author has no superior, and the notes by Schrevelius have been highly praised. The printing ,vas done for Louis Elzevir of Amsterdam, then head of the famous Elzevir Press. Alphonse Willenls' work on Les Elzevier (Bruxelles, 1880) states that the Greek letters found in this book are foreign to Elzevir equipment, because the printing was done by Franz Hacke of Leyden, who has been ranked "\\rith Elzevir and Blaeu as one of the three ablest printers of this time. Originally published as two volumes, the Iliad and the Odyssey were rebound in red morocco as one volume by the famous English binder Roger Payne (1739-1797), of whom T. F. Dibdin (see No. ')2

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above) relnarks: "Up rose Roger Payne, like a star diffusing lustre on all sides.... His countrymen ... now beheld an artist ... who bid fair to eclipse the most successful efforts of all foreign binders, of whatever age or country."-Bibliographical De-cameron (1817), II, 506. This book was once the property of M. Wadhull, who wrote his name in it and recorded its purchase "of Payne" for £1.13.0 on No­ vember 23, 1779. It was later owned by Michael Tomkinson of Franche Hall, Worcestershire, England, who inserted his armorial book-plate. In the twentieth century it ,vas acquired by Lucius Beebe, ,vho in 1931 compiled (with R. J. Bulkley, Jr.) A Bibliography oj the Writings oj Edwin Arlington Robinson (Cambridge, Mass.). Author, editor, printer, publisher, binder, purchaser, owner, in­ scriber, and recipient-all have united in making this a supremely in­ teresting association item. 60. HOUSMAN, A. E.: Last Poems. London: Grant Ricll­ ards, 1922. First Edition; brown cloth. Presented "With the Author's compliments" to Thomas Hardy, and with his Max Gate book-label. Hardy has marked ten or eleven of his favorite poems (including No. 10: "Could man be drunk for ever"); but the "Epitaph on an Army of Mer­ cenaries" is not marked. 61. JAMES, HENRY: The American Scene. London: Chap­ man & Hall, 1907. First Edition; red cloth; top edge gilt. Inscribed: "To Rt. Hon. Sir G. O. Trevelyan, Bart. [from] his faithful old friend Henry Janles. Feb: 8th: 1907." George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928) was the author of the Life of Lord Macaulay, his uncle. 62. JAMES, HENRY: Essays in London. London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1893. First Edition. Inscribed: "To Ed­ mund Gosse. Henry James. June 20th, 1893." Gosse later became Librarian of the House of Lords. The book carries his book-plate by E. A. Abbey (1852-1911), the American painter who did the large frescoes in the Boston Public Li­ brary. 63. JAMES, HENRY: Terminations. London: William Heinemann, 1895. First Edition; blue cloth. Inscribed: "To Mrs- Humphry Ward: Henry James. l\tlay 17th, 1895." l\1rs. Humphry Ward was Mary Arnold, daughter of Thomas Arnold (see NO.7 above), and niece of Matthew Arnold.

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Colby Library Quarterly 101 64. JEWETT, SARAH ORNE: Country By-Ways. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1881. First Edition; green cloth; top edges gilt. Dedicated "To T.R.J., my dear Father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew." This is the author's own copy, autographed "Sarah O. Jewett. . First Copy to be kept"! 65. JEWETT, SARAH ORNE: ..4 Country Doctor. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin &Co., 1884. Third edition; green cloth; inscribed: "John E. Tucker from Sarah O. Jewett. July 1884." "The comnlonest form of association book, and in general the most desirable, is one which is the work of the autographer and which he is bestowing on a friend."-'Vinterich and Randall: A Primer f!.f Book-Collecting (New York, 1946), page 46. 66. JOHNSON, ROSSITER: The Alphabet oj Rhetoric. Ne,v York: D. Appleton & Co., 1903. Inscribed: "To Edillund Clarence Stedman from his friend Rossiter Johnson. Octo­ ber 8, 1903." With Stedrrlan's "Pan piping" book-plate. Presented by Helen Louise Coburn, '77. 67. KEATS, JOHN: Poetical UTorks. London: Grant Rich­ ards, 1901. Blue limp leather; World's Classics Series, No. 7; top edges gilt. Autographed on front fly-leaf: "Josephine Preston Peabody, Stratford-on-Avon, July 19°2." According to Van Wyck Brooks (New England: Indian Summer, 1940), Miss Peabody was, at the time of her purchase of this copy of Keats, "the reigning poet in Boston." She bought the book in Strat­ ford, where her play, The Piper, was produced at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Later she gave the book to Edwin Arlington Rob­ inson, perhaps after he had expressed to her the same opinion which (on October 12, 1890) he had written to H. DeF. Smith: "Did you ever read any of Keats' sonnets? They are great. To nIY mind they are the greatest in the English language." On March 30, 1899, Miss Peabody had ,vritten in her diary: "Last night Mr. Robinson came to see me ... and glad was I to set eyes on such a creature.... I hope he will come again." In the spring of 1901 she visited New York and saw Robinson there. This book, purchased in 1902, traces their friendship further. He once wrote her: "You can never know how much you have done for me." In 1928 he published a book of his own sonnets. 68. KNIGHT, CHARLES: William Caxton) the First English

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102 Colby Library Quarterly .Printer. London: Charles Knight & Co., 1844. Three-quar­ ters blue morocco. Inscribed: "For Scott Cunningham in the month of July 1923 [froIn] Vincent Starrett." With Scott Cunningham's book-plate. A book about a printer, given by one bibliographer to another. In 1924 Cunningham did a Bibliography of Carl Van Vechten. Starrett has been called "one of America's most engaging writers on bib­ liophily." In 1919 he edited an anthology In Praise oj Stevenson, and has compiled bibliographies of Stephen Crane, of Ambrose Bierce, and others. 69. LANGTON, STEPHEN, Arch.bishop of Canterbury: Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis. Poems from a thirteenth­ century manuscript-a Psalter once in the possession of William Morris. "Printed ... at the Kelmscott Press ... , and finished on the 7th day of July, 1896." Inscribed: "To Algernon C. Swinburne from the transcriber. Jan. 8th, 1897." This is the first and only book which William Morris printed in three colors: one other was completed after his death (he died a month after this book had been printed). Morris printed 250 copies, of which only two besides this copy have reached New England libraries. The "transcriber" of the thirteenth-century manuscript was S. ·C. (later Sir Sydriey) Cockerell, who (in a letter "vhich he 'wrote to the poet, Swinburne on January 8, 1897) stated: "These lines are sonorous enough, and it was a great treat to hear Morris read them aloud from his manuscript, which is even prettier than the printed book." This volume is indeed a beautiful example of the ,vork produced at the Kelmscott Press. 70. LOCKER, FREDERICK: London Lyrics. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876. Gray boards; with illustrations on India paper by R. Doyle. Inscribed on the half-title to: "Sir John Bennett with Fred'k Locker's compliments and best wishes." Locker is better known as Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-1895). Sir John Bennett was the brother of Dr. W. C. Bennett (1820-1895), the man selected by T. J. Wise (see Nos. 91 and 93 below) for the du­ bious honor of fathering the forged "Reading 1847" Sonnets jrom the Portuguese. 71. LOWELL, AMY: Can Grande's Castle. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1918. First Edition; gray boards, paper

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Colby Library Quarterly 1°3 label; inscribed: "To Thomas Hardy, Esq., '\\Tith the pro­ found respect and admiration of . December, 1918." Ex Libris Elizabeth Wade ''''hite, of Middlebury, Connecticut; presented by her to the Colby College Li­ brary. 72. MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT: Fatal Interview. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. Second printing. Presented to the poet Robinson and autographed by him: "E. A. Robinson from J.G." Presented by Robinson to his friend George Burnham (1867-1940) and by Burnham be­ queathed to the Colby College Library. 73. MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT: The King's Henchman. New York: Harper & Brothers, 192 7. Limited Auto­ graphed Edition: one of 158 copies on Tuscany hand­ made paper, and one of only eight copies for private dis­ tribution. This copy is No. 5 and is signed "Edna St. Vin­ cent Millay." Inscribed: "To Thomas Hardy with the ad­ miration and love of many years, [from] Edna St. Vincent Millay. Austerlitz, New York, February 1927." With Thomas Hardy's Max Gate book-label. Presented to the Colby College Library by Mr. Herman A. Oriel. 74. MILTON, JOHN: Poetical J1l orks. New York: John B. Alden, 1885. Two vols., brown cloth. Autographed on fly­ leaf: "E. A. Robinson. May 27, 1887." Added, in the hand of Robinson's Harvard classmate: "Given to me April 17, 1893. James L. Tryon." . 75. MILTON, JOHN: Poetical Works. London: Macmillan & Co., 1887. Globe Edition; inscribed (in Robinson's hand): "E. A. Robil1son from L.J.H.," i.e., Lawrence J. Henderson, who is called by Robinson's biographer "a brilliant youth" whom he "had met at the Richards." I-Ienderson later became Professor of Chemical Biology at Harvard. 76. MOORE, GEORGE EDWARD: Principia Ethica. Cam­ bridge University Press, 1903. Inscribed to: "Thomas Hardy from Raymond Abbot. Sept. 1906." With Thomas Hardy's Max Gate book-label.

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1°4 Colby Library Quarterly 77. MORRIS, LLOYD: The Poetry of Edwin ~4rlington Robin­ son; an Essay in Appreciation. New York: George H. Doran Co., 1923. First Edition; salmon-colored boards, linen spine; inscribed: "To the afflicted subject with condolence fronl the apologetic author; and to E. A. Robinson with the profound friendship of Lloyd ~1orris. February 27, 1923." Added in Robinson's hand: "Please return to E. A. Robinson, 328 E. 42nd St." 78. MURRAY, GILBERT: The Story of Nejrel~epta. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911. Colored frontispiece by Florence Kingsford (i.e., Mrs. Sydney. Cockerell). Presented "With the Author's compliments" to Thomas Hardy; with Hardy's l\tlax Gate book-label. Presented to the Colby Col­ lege Library by Raymond Spinney, '21. 79. NOYES, ALFRED: The Torch-Bearers. Edinburgh: Wil­ liam Blackwood & Sons, 1922. Green cloth. Inscribed to: "E. A. Robinson with very best wishes, and memories of Ponkapog and St. Albans, from Alfred Noyes. June 3, '23." Robinson sailed for England in April, 1923, and spent six weeks there. "I could easily stay in England for the rest of my life," he wrote to a friend in America. But before he had received this book fronl Noyes, Robinson cabled ~1rs. MacDowell that he ,vould be back at Peterborough in August. 80. PERRY, BLISS: Emerson Today. Press, 1931. Inscribed to: "Edwin Arlington Robinson from Bliss Perry. Presented by Robinson to Miss Margaret Perry and by her added to the Robinson Collection in the Colby College Library. 81. RICHARDS, LAURA E.: E.~4.R. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936. First Edition; brown cloth. Dedi­ cated "To Ruth Nivison," the poet's niece. Inscribed to: "George E. Burnham, with affectionate regard from Laura E. Richards. July 1936." Regarding George Burnham's friendship with Robinson, see No. 22 above. 82. RICHARDS, LAURA E.: Nautilus. Boston: Estes & Lau­ riat, 1895. "r~renth thousand," pictorial cream-colored cloth; inscribed to: "Ed'\vin Arlington Robinson from

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Colby Library Quarterly 1°5 L.E.R. Sept. 1897." with a stanza of eight lines, beginning "But I think 'tis the love that shines in his face" copied in Mrs. Richards' hand. 83. ROBINSON, ED"VIN ARLINGTON: Captain Craig. Bos­ ton: Houghton, MifHin & Co., 1903. Second edition. In­ scribed in the hand of Alfred H. Louis, the original of "Captain Craig": "Alice Meynell from Edwin Arlingtoll Robinson by his friend and forerunner A.H.L. August 31, 19°3." Alice Meynell (1850-1922) wrote poems and critical essays, on Dickens, Swinburne, Tennyson and others. This book 'was presented by her husband, Mr. Wilfred Meynell, after her death, to W. Den­ ham Sutcliffe, editor of Robinson's Letters to Ha'rry DeForest Sntith (Cambridge, 1947). 84. ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON: The Children oj the Night. Boston: Richard G. Badger & Co., 1897. First Edi­ tion; tan cloth; one of ,500 copies on Batchworth Laid Pa­ per. This copy was purchased by Mary Lowe Carver, the first woman to graduate from Colby College; presented to the College Library by her daughter. 85. ROBINSON, EDWIN .,A.RLINGTON: Merlin. New York: The Macn1illan Co., 1917. First Edition; red cloth; dedi­ cated "To George Burnham." Inscribed "To George Burnham from E. A. Robinson. l\farch 16, 191'7." "The ne plus ultra of association books is the dedication copy-the actual copy of a book bestowed by an author on the person to whom it is dedicated."-A Primer oj Book-Collecting by John T. Winterich (with David .~. Randall), Ne\v York, 1946; p. 54. 86. ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON: The Torrent and The ATight Before. Privately printed by the author, 1896. In­ scribed: "To Miss [Edith] Brower, with compliments of E. A. Robinson. Jan. 1897." With one omitted line added at the top of page 7 in Robinson's hand. (For further de­ tails regarding this copy of The Torrent~ see Colby Library Quarterly,. February 1947.) "Robinson's The Torrent and The Night Before is one of the most costly units of American verse of its generation.... The first and only edition consisted of 312 copies, and cost the author-publisher

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fifty-two dollars. IVlany copies ,,,,ere sent to ... strangers ...-al1l0ng thenl Thomas Hardy, 'whose copy was sold at auction in New York in 1935 at more than ten times the original cost of the ,vhole edition." \Vinterich & Randall: A Printer oj Book-Collecting, p. 49. 87. ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL: Ballads and Sonnets. Bos­ ton: Roberts Brothers, 1882. Brown cloth; gilt tops; auto­ graphed on the title-page: "Edwin A. Robinson. Nov. 19, 1891~" In April 1894, Robinson. wrote to his friend Smith: "How Rossetti does beat them .... !" 88. ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL: Hand and Soul. Chicago: 'Vay and Williams, 1895. "Reprinted from. The Germ by 't\Tilliam Morris at the Kelmscott Press, ... October, 1895." This is Rossetti's only short story; and this is the only book manu­ factured by William Morris for American publishers. This copy car­ ries an autograph certificate by one member of the American pub­ lishing house: "Dear Mr. Cathcart: Here is a little book which I hope you will accept and enjoy. It is the only copy in the edition bound in the bro,vnish vellum. Sincerely, Chauncey L. Williams." 89. ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL: Hand and Soul. "Finished the 24th day of October, 1895." Sold by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. Vellum.. Inscribed to: "Thomas Hardy from Beatrice Stella Calnpbell in dear remem­ brance. January, 1896." On January 3, 1896, Mrs. Patrick Campbell was at the King's Arms Hotel, Dorchester, preparatory to laying siege to Thomas Hardy at Max Gate, in order to obtain his consent to her playing the part of Tess in a dramatization of Tess oj the D'Urbervilles. After her return to London, she bought this Kelmscott Press book and sent it to Hardy. It remained in his library until his death in 1928, but it failed to ob­ tain the part of Tess for Mrs. Campbell. 90. SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE: Minor Poems. London: Ed­ ward Moxon, 1846. Green cloth; inscribed to: "Rich[ard] H[enry] Dana, Jr. from his friend Horatio .Woodman." Dana received this book six years after the publication of his Two Years Before the Mast. 91. SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES: Siena. London: [allegedly] "John Camden Hotten, 1868," but printed with type not manufactured until after 1880. Hotten died in 1873. This book is a forgery by Thomas J.Wise, con-

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Colby Library Quarterly 1°7 cocted in 1893 or earlier. Ex LihTis Carroll J-\. Wilson, with his book-plate, and with a letter from him, dated Novem­ ber 12, 1937, containing additional (unpublished) infor­ nlation about this forgery. 92. TENNYSON, ALFRED: Idylls f?f the J(ing. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1874. "Cabinet Edition," red cloth; autographed on half-title: "T. Hardy." With Tholllas Hardy's M'ax Gate book-label. After Hardy's death in 1928, this book was presented by Mrs. I-Iardy to Paul Lemperly of Cleveland, Ohio; and after her death in 1937, Mr. Lemperly presented the book to the Colby College Li­ brary. In This Book-Collecting Ganle (Boston, 1928), A. Edward Newton remarked that "Paul Lemperly ... has a collection of books" which even T. J. Wise of London "would bid welcome." 93. TENNYSON, ..A.LFRED: . [Allegedly] "Cam­ bridge, ~Iass.: printed [allegedlYl by Welch &Bigelow for Private Circulation, 1868." With a note signed "J.T.F., November 1868." In the catalogue of his own library T. J. Wise listed this book and ascribed the prefatory note to Janles T. Fields, the Boston publisher; but Wise must have composed the note himself, for this book is one of his fifty or more forgeries, proved so both by its paper and by its type. (See page 305 of An Enquiry by John Carter & Graham Pollard, Lon­ don, 1934.) This is the only one of Wise's forgeries with a cloth cover. 94. UNTERMEYER, LOUIS: Roast I.eviathan. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, n.d. [1923]. Inscribed: "for E.A.R.-"\vith lTIOre obeisances than pages 114-115 could contain. Louis U-. 1923." On pages 114-115 is the poem "Tangential (For E. A. R.)." 95. VAN DOREN, MARK: Edwin Arlington Robinson. New York: The Literary Guild of America, 19 2 7. Inscribed: "To E. A. Robinson from Mark Van Doren. April 26, 1927," shortly after the success of Robinson's J'ristram. 96. VIRGIL: Works [in Latitl]. : H. C. Carey & J. Lea, 1825. Edwin Arlington Robinson's copy, with notes in his hand: "finished Book VII Jan. 31, 1889." On page 567: "Finished Aeneid May 12, 1889. E. A. Rob-

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108 Colby Library Quarterly inson." On September 27, 1890, Robinson wrote his friend Smith: "I ... go to work to-morrow morning.... I must confess that I would rather ... read Virgil." 97. WHITfIER, JOHN GREENLEAF: Writ£ngs. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1891. Riverside Edition, 7 vols. (4 vols. only at Colby); green cloth. Inscribed to: "E. A. Robinson, with cordial regards of I. Mowry Saben. March 24, '93." (See No. 31 above.) 98. WISE, THOMAS JAMES: A Bronte Library. London: printed for private circulation only, 19 2 9. Red buckram; top edges gilt. Inscribed: "For Coulson Kernahan From his old and loving Friend Thos. J. \,\Tise." In 1891 Kernahan assisted Frederick Locker (see No. 70 above) in compiling Lyra Elegantiarum, and he ,vas the author of introductory studies of Six Famous Living Poets (London, 1922); the six included Alfred Noyes (see No. 79 above) and John Drinkwater (see No. 33). 99. WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM: Complete Poetical Works. London: Macmillan & Co., 1893. Green cloth; top edges gilt. Inscribed: "To E. A. Robinson [from] Harry DeF. Smith. Dec. '93." In 1895 Robinson wrote to Smith: "I have been reading. .. the book of \'\Tordsworth that you gave me. Hereafter it will be a part of my life.... What a magnificent thing it is." 100. WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM: Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems. London: T. N. Longman, 1800. Two volumes: First Edition of Vol. II; second edition of Vol. I. A. Edward Newton's copy of these famous books, with his Boswellian book-plate (showing Tenlple Bar, London) designed by Charles G. Osgood.

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