Benson (Arthur Christopher) La Cahier Jaune. Poems
£395
Eton, Printed by George New, 1892.
8vo. Original yellow printed wrappers. Slip-case.
The first edition of A.C. Benson’s first collection of poems, this issue without the limitation indicating one of 200 copies and not signed, also without ‘privately printed’ to head of title-page. Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925) was an English poet and essayist who served as the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was one of six children of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his siblings included the novelist E.F. Benson and the Egyptologist Margaret Benson. After graduating from Cambridge, Benson returned to Eton, publishing this collection in the year he was made housemaster; he went on to spend eighteen years there. It was his libretto for Elgar’s “Coronation Ode” of 1902 that brought him national fame, the words “Land of Hope and Glory” being his.
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Some dust-soiling and edge wear to wrappers, but overall a very good copy.
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