Dering, Edward Heneage The ban of Maplethorpe Dering, Edward Heneage. The ban of Maplethorpe. . . . With a memoir of the author. London and Leamington: Art and Book Company; Benzinger Bros. (New York, Cincinnati, Chicago), 1894. (6), 248; (4), 249-492; 50 pp. + seven photogravure plates, and an errata slip in Vol. II. Two vols., 8vo, original blue cloth (ends of spines just a trifle rubbed). First edition. "A pro-Catholic country house novel . . . finished on the night Dering died . . . privately published with a request that the reader pray for the author's soul." -- Sutherland. In 1859 Dering had married Georgiana, Lady Chatterton, a widow twenty years his senior. Dering dressed in 17th-century costume, and converted to Catholicism; both he and his wife wrote novels, whose oddity attracted the attention of Sadleir. At the end here, separately paginated, is a biographical account. "This and the pictures illustrate the weird ménage described by Sadleir (I, 84-5); but he did not have this book. For sheer gentle English loony eccentricity this ranks high." -- Woolf. A fine copy of a rare title; the NUC lists one copy (IU). Woolf 1786. Price: GBP 275.00 other currencies   order no. B130    inquire

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