[Rarebooks] FS: Grave Epigrams by John Sparrow 1/200

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"Grave Epigrams"

By John Sparrow. Printed by Simon Rendall in an edition of 200 copies: 1974.

A curious volume of 11 poems, all either on the subject of death and
mortality or in the form of actual epitaphs or epigrams. John Sparrow,
whose 25-year Wardenship of All Souls College at Oxford was devoted to a
fierce resistance to its being tugged, kicking and screaming, into the
20th century, was also a prolific writer and poet of some ability. Here,
for instance, is ‘Upon Stone, an Engraver-

A stone above, a stone below;
meet it was to shroud him so;
fitting too that he should have;
grave words graven on his grave;
Here this precious stone shall stay;
till Resurrection Day;
angels roll the stone away”

Sparrow was also a famous book collector whose motto was “never lend
books, never give them away, never sell them, and never read them”.

Softcover. 7”x8.75”, 23 pages; decoration incorporating a willow by
Reynolds Stone on the cover; in fine condition.  $100.00

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