Jack and STEPHENSEN, P. R. ( editors ). The London Aphrodite. Number 1[–6 ( all published )].

Name: Jack and STEPHENSEN, P. R. ( editors ). The London Aphrodite. Number 1[–6 ( all published )].
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Author: LINDSAY

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Produced ‘Not for Profit, but for the Fun of the Thing, Obviously’ LINDSAY, Jack and STEPHENSEN, P. R. ( editors ). The London Aphrodite. Number 1[–6 ( all published )]. London: The Franfrolico Press . August 1928[–July 1929]. Six volumes. Publisher’s printed wrappers (respectively on pale green, coral, blue-green, lilac, beige, and grey paper) with illustration of faun astride a winged horse to upper cover, vol. I with round inkstamp ‘per copy 2/- nett.’ to front cover; I: pp. ‘64’ ( i.e. 66), photo-graphic reproduction of The London Aphrodite by Lionel Ellis facing p. 2; II: pp. [65]–160, plate after p. 66; III: pp. [161]–232; IV: pp. [233]–316; V: pp. [317]–400; VI: pp. [401]–496; woodcut to head of each title-page, vols I, II, III, IV, and VI with photographic plate after title; some creasing and mild discolouration to spines, small chip to upper joint of vol. VI; a very good set; contemporary bookplate of C. A. G. Cuthbert Keeson to inner front covers. A complete run of this short-lived, humorous literary journal produced by the Franfrolico Press in London – first established in Sydney as Australia’s first private press. The first issue announces that there would be only six issues, published bi-monthly, and features an editorial manifesto setting out the journal’s aims in ‘equally [outraging] the modernist and the reactionary. It is certain that J. C. Squire and T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and Dean Inge, Humbert Wolfe and Robert Graves, E. E. Cummings and Alfred Noyes, M

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