[Rarebooks] FS: Grave Epigrams...

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

An item from our new A GRAVE AFFAIR catalog
<http://www.joslinhall.com/Bookin-3.pdf>
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Sparrow, John. GRAVE EPIGRAMS.

Bembridge; 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; a fine copy.

Price: $100 -

Illustrations can be found in our new
A GRAVE AFFAIR catalog ->
<http://www.joslinhall.com/Bookin-3.pdf>
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