The poets' corner / by Max Beerbohm

Sir Max Beerbohm

RA Collection: Book

Record number

12/802

Author

Sir Max Beerbohm

Edition

1st edition

Imprint

London: William Heinemann, 1904

Physical Description

20 leaves of plates : illustrations, portaits ; 38 cm.

General Note

Title page printed in red and black. Two preliminary unnumbered leaves, 20 leaves of colour lithograph plates depicting 21 poets.

Summary Note

Beerbohm's caricatures of Omar Khayyam, Robert Browning, Boethe, Matthew Arnold, Henrik Ibsen, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, William Watson, William Wordsworth, Lord Tennyson, Paul Verlaine, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Yeats, Homer, Robert Burns, Dante, Austin Dobson, Edmund Gosse, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Rudyard Kipling.

Binding Note

Pictorial paper cover.

Subject

Illustrated books
Caricatures
Humour

Contributors

Sir Max Beerbohm, illustrator
William Heinemann (London), publisher