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1913 Complete Works of C S Calverley : Biographical notice : Full Calf Binding
1913 Complete Works of C S Calverley : Biographical notice : Full Calf Binding
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The Complete Works of C S Calverley
With Biography Notice
By Sir Walter J. Sendall
Published by G Bell and Sons, London, 1913. 8vo, full calf prize binding, marble to all page edges, marble endpapers, pp xxxvii, (1), 514. With a frontispiece.
A good clean copy in a sound full calf binding. The binding is in good condition. The endpapers are good. There is a school prize presentation slip pasted to the inside front cover. All contents present and pages clean throughout and free from foxing and stains. Overall a very good copy.
Charles Stuart Calverley (2 December 1831 – 17 February 1884) was an English poet and wit. He was the literary father of what has been called "the university school of humour".
Nowadays he is best-known (at least in Cambridge, his adoptive home) as the author of the "Ode to Tobacco" (1862) which is to be found on a bronze plaque in Rose Crescent, on the wall of what used to be Bacon's the tobacconist. It concludes:
Cats may have had their goose
Cooked by tobacco juice;
Still, why deny its use
Thoughtfully taken?
We're not as tabbies are;
Smith, take a fresh cigar!
Jones, the tobacco jar!
Here's to thee, Bacon!"
His poem Beer is also notable, for its light mocking of Greek gods who, surprisingly, did not drink beer, and continues to extol:
"O Beer! O Hodgson, Guinness, Allsopp, Bass!
Names that should be on every infant's tongue!"
His Translations into English and Latin appeared in 1866; his Theocritus translated into English Verse in 1869; Fly Leaves in 1872; and Literary Remains in 1885
With Biography Notice
By Sir Walter J. Sendall
Published by G Bell and Sons, London, 1913. 8vo, full calf prize binding, marble to all page edges, marble endpapers, pp xxxvii, (1), 514. With a frontispiece.
A good clean copy in a sound full calf binding. The binding is in good condition. The endpapers are good. There is a school prize presentation slip pasted to the inside front cover. All contents present and pages clean throughout and free from foxing and stains. Overall a very good copy.
Charles Stuart Calverley (2 December 1831 – 17 February 1884) was an English poet and wit. He was the literary father of what has been called "the university school of humour".
Nowadays he is best-known (at least in Cambridge, his adoptive home) as the author of the "Ode to Tobacco" (1862) which is to be found on a bronze plaque in Rose Crescent, on the wall of what used to be Bacon's the tobacconist. It concludes:
Cats may have had their goose
Cooked by tobacco juice;
Still, why deny its use
Thoughtfully taken?
We're not as tabbies are;
Smith, take a fresh cigar!
Jones, the tobacco jar!
Here's to thee, Bacon!"
His poem Beer is also notable, for its light mocking of Greek gods who, surprisingly, did not drink beer, and continues to extol:
"O Beer! O Hodgson, Guinness, Allsopp, Bass!
Names that should be on every infant's tongue!"
His Translations into English and Latin appeared in 1866; his Theocritus translated into English Verse in 1869; Fly Leaves in 1872; and Literary Remains in 1885
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