[CORY (William)]: — Ionica.

London, George Allen..., 1891. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 8vo, 170 x 105 mms., pp. vi, 216, with errata slip tipped in before Contents page, small binder's ticket (slightly defective) on lower margin of front paste-odwn end-paper, contemporary light blue cloth, title in gilt on spine, which is sunned; corners slightly worn, top and base of spine slightly worn, but a good copy, with notes in pencil on the front paste-down end-paper - \"Some of these verses have decidedly vicious tone about them\" - and, on the top margin of the Contents page, \"There are five great poems. There are good verses. The rest are negligible.\" With ticks to indicate which of the first two categories are meant. The poet and schoolmaster William Johnson Cory (1823–1892) was an assistant master at Eton for over 25 years, and his Lucretilis, was used at Eton for 100 years. One of the poems ticked as \"great\" is probably his best-known, \"Heraclitus,\" a meditation on the death of Heraclitus.