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Buy this book on-line GREENWOOD, SIR GEORGE: : TENUES AVENAE. [Author SIGNED copy & ALs.],LONDON.G, BELL & SONS,LTD.,1925. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,slim 12mo HB,minus (issued?) dw/dj,
SIGNED,1st edn.VG+.No owner inscrptn,but author's signed+dated,warmly dedicated,
presentation inscrptn to front flyleaf.He has also handwritten an ink sub-title:
'Slight Reeds of Song' [and refers to this
specifically in the laid in letter] beneath the book's title on the title-page.Further loosely laid in,is a double-sided ALs (autographed letter signed) written in his own handwriting,by the author - on his own address-headed notepaper,dated June 1928, which is also addressed to the same recipient of the book.Minus issued(?) dw/dj.Bright,clean,dark brown paper-covered card boards,with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to upper board and to spine/ backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Head of spine/backstrip slightly damaged with a 1/4" split to each of the boards front+rear gutters' edges. Handmade,without watermarks,antique chain-laid,with vertical chain lines,paper.Top edges slightly aged/toned with some minimal,sporadic foxing/spotting,fore-edges untrimmed and less aged/toned with negligible foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? To front pastedown s pasted Times newspaper cutting: Obit of Sir George Greenwood,another smaller b/w portrait photograph newspaper cutting; and a further cutting of a correspondent's letter (assumed to the Times - similar type/font) pointing out inaccuracies in the obits and defending Greenwood's position of Greenwood being agnostic about Bacon having any or what share in authorship of Shakespeare's plays published in 1623.[Greenwood refused to endorse or name an alternative author of the Shakespearean canon,preferring instead to remain 'agnostic' on the identity of the author while steadfastly maintaining that the traditional view of authorship was ultimately indefensible.Wiki]
Author's inscrptn to ffe: 'To Agnes Galloway,Whose kindness did all that was possible to brighten an otherwise dismal time for the author of these Slight Reeds Song.With all best wishes & kind remembrances. G.G. June 1928.' The verses were first published 14 years earlier in the name of George Forester.Some of the verses appeared in other periodicals etc.,
but with 3 other short poems in place of one omitted poem,and also some alterations
to others.
The folded in half,double-sided,dated (7 June,1928) handwritten letter has the same
address as mentioned in the aforementioned Obit cutting (33,LINDEN GARDENS,W.2.}.Again the letter is addressed to the same recipient as the book.He comments on a case of (his) mistaken identity of being at the Military Tournament by the recipient.Thanks her for a card (picture postcard?) she'd sent of Hadley Green,joking he couldn't be put in the stocks because of the iron railings around it.Also,he's thanking her for her enquiries about Greenwood's wife's broken arm and it's subsequent treatment and physiotherapy etc.He discusses sending the book as a memento and refers to the subtitle addition/change.He recommends one
poem 'Le Grenier' after Beranger's 'Vingt Ans' explaining that Twenty wouldn't go into the rhyme,so he subtituted
'nineteen', at which age he recalls being in Paris himself - though not in a Grenier! Asks to be remembered to recipient's sister on her next sight or writing to her.Has added a postscript asking for forgiveness in writing her Christian name in the book without putting 'Miss' before it!' The letter and book presentation occurred just over 4 months before he died on 27th Oct,1928.
Born G[ranville] George Greenwood,
Kensington,London,3rd Jan,1850 - died 27th
Oct,1928.Barrister,Parliamentarian politician (Liberal MP for Peterborough - 1906-15.)Knighted 1916.A persistent and voiciferous advocate and anti-Stratfordian
on question of Shakespeare's authorship of
credited plays.Along with J. Thomas Looney formed The Shakespeare Fellowship continuing the Shakespeare authorship debate.Wrote a dozen or more books on the subject,mainly between 1908-24.
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