New Numbers. Volume 1, Numbers 1-4 [All published.] A Quarterly Publication [complete in 4 vols.]

(New Numbers.) BROOKE (Rupert), Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, John Drinkwater & Lascelles Abercrombie (Contributors)

Publication details: Ryton, Dymock, Printed at the Crypt House Press,1914,

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The literary journal of the Dymock Poets, preceding the emergence of Robert Frost and Edward Thomas, and of most significance for the presence of fifteen poems by Rupert Brooke across its four issues including, in the final number, his five war sonnets, which appear for the first time here (and whose composition delayed its publication, Guy Cuthbertson notes in the ODNB, to early 1915). Brooke's contributions outweigh those of the other contributors, slightly in number but vastly in significance.

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FIRST EDITIONS, occasional light spotting, more so in final two volumes, pp. 59; [iii], 60-108; [iv], 109-152; 153-206, [6], 4to, original blue-grey wrappers printed in black, first number with Contents page for whole run laid in at front along with Elkin Mathews prospectus for Gibson's work, a few light spots to covers, the third number with a very faint pink mark to front, this volume also with a short split at foot of upper joint, last number with faint crease to top corner of front (also to half-title), a very good set

Bibliography: (Keynes, pp.115-7; Cooper 561-4)

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