Carr reported in his History of the QTP (1987) that he had published one impression of his title. Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) was an English novelist, translator and poet. His love for an 11-year old girl was rejected, his parents were consumptives and killed themselves, and he died aged 32S leaving us with memorable phrases such as Days of wine and roses
and Gone with the wind
.
(Last updated on 31/1/2021)
SBP-DOW-THO1: First and only edition
Title: Cynara. Ernest Dowson
Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Milldale Road, Kettering
Year: 19?
ISBN: None
Size: 129 x 96 mm
Pages: 16 in total; 4 pp Dowson
Staples: two
Binding: white printed matt card covers
Paper: pale brown
Editor: (J.L. Carr)
Cover artist: (Doré)
Internal illustrations: one in Dowson section
Number in series: none stated
Colophon: none
Telephone number: none given
Printing history: none stated
Number of other titles listed: none listed
Printed by: not stated
Content: Biography. Poems: Cynara; You would have understood me; Extreme unction; Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam.
Notes: They are not long, the days of wine and roses; Out of a misty dream, Our path emerges for a while, then closes, Within a dream.
Rear and front covers (click to enlarge)
Inside front cover (click to enlarge)