The Georgiad : a satirical fantasy in verse /
Ignatius Roy Dunnachie Campbell (1901 - 1957)
Category
Books
Date
1931
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3185749
Summary
Bibliographic description
64 p. ; 23 cm. Manuscript inscription on endpaper: "Infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas ultio" [Juvenal]. One pencil manuscript annotation. Loosely inserted 5 items: 1. manuscript poem in two quatrains, entitled 'Their Muse', first line "At every art except abuse inept", signed with monogram OS [Osbert Sitwell?]; on headed paper of Quiney's Hotel, St. Brigida, Grand Canary [a response to Campbell]; 2. publisher's review copy request slip, with typescript date and price: Nov. 5th @ 5s. net; 3. small press cutting notice of 'A satiric poem'; 4. press cutting: "Bad tempered poets. ... By J.B. Priestley". The Evening Standard, December 10, 1931; 5. press cutting: "Minstrel boys" by Ivor Brown, The Week-end Review, December 19, 1931. Provenance: pastedown inscribed "V.N. / Long Barn" [i.e. Vita [Sackville-West] Nicolson, 1892-1962]. Binding: blue publisher's cloth, gold lettered.
Makers and roles
Ignatius Roy Dunnachie Campbell (1901 - 1957)