A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FREDERICK ROLFE BARON CORVO
1957WRCLIT85348London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1957. Gilt cloth. Frontis and plates. Small offset rustmark in gutter of front free endsheet otherwise about fine in very slightly tanned and lightly hand-soiled dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the occasion of publication: "For George Sims with very many thanks for all his help and kindness from his friend Cecil Woolf December 20th 1956." The earliest presentation copies of this book we have seen or handled shared this date. There is also a small correction in Woolf's hand on the front jacket flap. Both forms of the recipient's bookplate appear on the pastedown. Number VII of the distinguished Soho Bibliographies. Laid in front is an offprint from THE BOOK COLLECTOR of Woolf's article "Some Uncollected A Authors . Frederick Rolfe" with the imprint of the Queen Anne Press. The eight- page offprint is lightly foxed its staple rusted causing the rust offset to the gutter of the Bibliography and the extended edges somewhat creased. However it is inscribed in the upper margin of the cover title: "For G.F. Sims with sincerest thanks from Cecil Woolf April 6th '55." In his Preface to the Bibliography Woolf gives "special thanks . to Mr. Bertram Rota Mr. George Sims and Mr. Alan Anderson who have read the book at various stages in its production and saved me from many blunders and infelicities." Rupert Hart-Davis hardcover books
