1st thus. One of an edition limited to 150 copies. 46pp. In burgundy cloth-covered boards with gilt letteirng on spine. Top edge sprayed red. Signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Patrick Jenkins, the intrepid publisher of 'New Quests for Corvo with cordial greetings from the co-editor, Cecil Woolf, March 31st 1965". 8vo. Spine cloth heavily faded else neat, clean and crisp throughout.
The first separate publication of this essay on Frederick Rolfe/Baron Corvo, first published in 1961 in the anthology 'Corvo, 1860-1890'. Rolfe was an writer, artist, photographer and eccentric perhaps best remembered for Stories Toto Told Me (1898), Hadrian the Seventh (1904) and The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole (1934) - the latter was thought lost but found, after Rolfe's death in 1913 in a safe at his publisher's, Chatto & Windus. Entirely comfortable with his sexual orientation, he correspondence and associated with other homosexuals widely and freely.
