The Rodiad.

Llandogo: Old Stile Press, 1996. First printing of this edition. 25 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Introduction by the printer and co-illustrator, Nicolas McDowall. One of “up to” 75 numbered copies. Burton Weiss writes, “A classic Uranian erotic poem, celebrating the joys of whipping schoolboys, which has usually (but erroneously) been attributed to George Colman the Younger, although Richard Monckton Milnes has also been suggested (by Jean Overton Fuller, in SWINBURNE: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY, London, 1968). The correct first edition was published in London by John Camden Hotten in 1871, under the fictitious imprint ‘Cadell & Murray, 1810’ (250 copies). There was a reissue in 1898, probably published by Charles Carrington, under the same fictitious imprint, but with the date changed to 1820 (200 copies). Finally, Cayme Press brought out an attractive edition in 1927, limited to 450 copies, with a Preface by Yvon Nicolas.