JUXTA SALICES
Scarce first printing of these Knoxian verses, variously Etonian, Oxonian, and Sherlockian.
Very good plus.
Price: $175.00
JUXTA SALICES
[SHERLOCK HOLMES]: "—Here, gentlemen, I have seventeen separate arguments on the nature of love, which this gentlemen has stolen from Socrates!"
These mostly poetic selections conclude with Knox's sub-Platonic Decalogue Symposium, among whose participants are Peter Pan, Socrates, and Sherlock Holmes, and which almost makes up for Knox's inclusion elsewhere of certain catastrophic limericks. "Yes," says his Aristotle, "it would be very clever if the author had thought out his position at all." Knox, well-known in certain circles for his "Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes" as well as for his own works of detective fiction, has benefited greatly from his good fortune in being both the uncle and the biographical subject of Penelope Fitzgerald; he had also the fortune of being the biographical subject (though not the uncle) of Evelyn Waugh. One may suppose this pleased him.
Read more: Penelope Fitzgerald, The Knox Brothers.
The Object
First edition. Oxford: Alden & Co. Ltd., Bocardo Press, 1910. 7.25'' x 5''. Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt. 88 pages. Though no provenance markings, this copy from the library of the noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong. Mild wear and rubbing to boards at extremities. Pages lightly toned.
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