Love in earnest
Subtitle: sonnets, ballades, and lyrics
By: by J.G.F. Nicholson
Contributors: Rolfe, Frederick, 1860-1913; Mather, William Ernest, 1877-1899
Publisher: E. Stock
Published: 1892
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Notes: Half title: Love in earnest : a sequence of fifty sonnets in second person.

First issue.

First issue has poem "St. William of Norwich (painted by F.W. Rolfe)," p. 164. "After the book was published, Rolfe threatened the author with legal action, with the result that ... a cancel leaf, bearing a sonnet by Nicholson ... was substituted"--Woolf, p. 93.

Rare Book copy: Pages uncut. Inscribed to Wm. [William] Ernest Mather, May 1892, the dedicatee of the first section of the book, a sequence of 50 numbered sonnets.

Woolf B1