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- 1880s-1930s? (Creation)
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1 book with plain pages. blue marbled hard cover and blue spine; 45 ff and two endpapers. Many pages blank.
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Recto of front endpaper bears, in the hand of the young R. C. Trevelyan, "History of Cogiliac"; the verso begins "Chapter I" with a summary of the contents followed by the first lines of the main text; the next page seems to have a sketch map of Trevelyan's imaginary island, but there is nothing further of this work in the book.
From the other end of the book is written out a later verse drama, first entitled "Septimius" [44v-39r]; this title is crossed out and "Maya" substituted. Poem is a verse dialogue between Cinna and Septimius. A translation by Trevelyan of Catullus XLV, in which Septimius and his lover Acme appear, follows. ["Maya" appeared in "Beelzebub and Other Poems", published in 1935, see e.g. 16/181].