Maurice Hewlett - NEW CANTERBURY TALES - 1901 HC 1stEd

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[Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923)] [Fiction]

NEW CANTERBURY TALES

BY

MAURICE HEWLETT

 

New York: The Macmillan Company. 1901.

262, [4 (ads)] pp. Complete.

Octavo. 7¾ x 5¼ inches (20 x 13 cm).

First American Edition.

 

Original publisher's green cloth-covered boards, with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt; front fore edge untrimmed. Plain endpapers.

 

Light rubbing and edgewear to the boards, with some moisture spotting to covers. The book is clean with no names or markings, and the binding is strong.

 

The light smudge to the right of some photos is from a spot on the lens, and is not a blemish on the page or cover.

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CONTENTS
The Prologue
The Scrivener's Tale of The Countess Alys
Dan Costard's Tale of Peridore and Paravail
Captain Salomon Brazenhead's Tale of The Half Brothers
The Prioress of Ambresbury's Tale of Saint Gervase of Plessy
Master Richard Smith's Tale of The Cast of the Apple
Percival Perceforest's Tale of Eugenic and Galeotto

Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923), was an English historical novelist, poet and essayist. He was born at Weybridge, the eldest son of Henry Gay Hewlett, of Shaw Hall, Addington, Kent. He was educated at the London International College, Spring Grove, Isleworth, and was called to the bar in 1891. He gave up the law after the success of Forest Lovers . From 1896 to 1901 he was Keeper of Lands, Revenues, Records and Enrolments, a government post as adviser on matters of medieval law.

Hewlett married Hilda Beatrice Herbert on 3 January 1888 in St. Peter's Church, Vauxhall, where her father was the incumbent vicar. The couple had two children, a daughter, Pia, and a son, Francis, but separated in 1914.

He settled at Broad Chalke, Wiltshire. His friends included Evelyn Underhill, and Ezra Pound, whom he met at the Poet's Club in London.

Maurice Hewlett was a friend of J. M. Barrie, who named one of the pirates in Peter Pan "Cecco" after Hewlett's son.

- From Wikipedia.

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