Commonplace book.

Adcock (Arthur St John, Compiler)

Commonplace book.

Description: written neatly in black ink on ruled paper, one run of extracts glossed in pencil by Adcock noting the occasion of their absorption, index of themes at front, predominantly rectos only, a couple of inkspots and one leaf creased at bottom corner, pp. [xviii], [24, blanks], [180], [+ blanks at rear], foolscap 8vo, original black cloth notebook with marbled edges, some wear including loss to backstrip, upper joint split but holding, flyleaf/title-page loose, sound

Publication Details: 10th April 1886

Notes: Adcock (b. 1864, d. 1930) was a busy author, prominent in his day - but better known for his journalistic activity than his work as a poet and novelist, in which he was classed among the 'Cockney School'.This is a well kept commonplace book with its extracts drawn largely from canonical sources - Shakespeare, Chaucer, classical, romantic, and metaphysical poets - along with some more contemporary selections, including Ella Wheeler Wilcox and a full transcription of Fitzgerald's 1889 revision of 'The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám'. As the latter indicates, though the commonplace book is dated 18...moreAdcock (b. 1864, d. 1930) was a busy author, prominent in his day - but better known for his journalistic activity than his work as a poet and novelist, in which he was classed among the 'Cockney School'.This is a well kept commonplace book with its extracts drawn largely from canonical sources - Shakespeare, Chaucer, classical, romantic, and metaphysical poets - along with some more contemporary selections, including Ella Wheeler Wilcox and a full transcription of Fitzgerald's 1889 revision of 'The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám'. As the latter indicates, though the commonplace book is dated 1886 at the front some entries within are dated later, giving roughly a three-year span for its production - still predating by a few years Adcock's emergence as an author of any sort. A handful of prose selections include a run of extracts from 'The Spectator', conveying a dual interest in poetry and journalism that carried through to his career. HIDE