BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen. The Love Sonnets of Proteus. 5th edn. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. [c.1885]
Half title. Partially uncut in orig. green cloth, blocked & lettered in gilt, bevelled boards, extremities sl. rubbed. t.e.g.
¶Blunt, 1840-1922, poet, essayist, political activist and Arabian horse breeder. He was married to Lady Anne Noel, who was the daughter of Ada Lovelace and the great-granddaughter of Lord Byron, though their relationship was fraught due to Blunt's various mistresses including Pre-Raphaelite muse and William Morris' wife Jane Morris. He was openly against British imperialism and supported Irish Home Rule, for which he was imprisoned first in Galway Prison and then in Kilmainham Gaol in 1888.