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Fanfrolico Press

Founded by Jack Lindsay in 1927
1925-1926
John DONNE : A Defence of Women for their Inconstancy
(1925 Fanfrolico Press) - 370. Norman Lindsay
The Mimiambs of Herondas
(1926 Fanfrolico Press, London) - 375. Decorated by Alan Odle
ARISTOPHANES : Lysistrata : Done into English by Jack Lindsay
(1926 Fanfrolico Press) - 725 signed by Norman Lindsay
Offered in 1999 for £330

1927
Robert LANDOR : Selections from the Writings
(1927 Curwen for Fanfrolico) - 155 on vellum of 1000
Sir J HARRINGTON : The Metamorphosis of Aiax
(1927 Fanfrolico) - P J D Smith
E PARTRIDGE : Robert Eyres Landor - A Biographical & Critical Sketch
(1927 Curwen for Fanfrolico, London)
PETRONIUS ARBITER : The Complete Works .. done into English by Jack Lindsay
(1927 Fanfrolico Press) - Norman Lindsay. 650 signed
Offered in 1991 for £230
Peter MEADOWS : Delighted Earth - A Selection by Peter Meadows from Herrick's Hesperides
(1927 Fanfrolico Press) - 550. Lionel Ellis
Jack LINDSAY : William Blake - Creative Will and the Poetic Image
(1927 Fanfrolico Press) - Norman Lindsay
(Ed) Jack LINDSAY : Loving Mad Tom - Bedlamite Verses of the 16th & 17th C's
(1927 Fanfrolico Press) - 375. Etchings by Norman Lindsay

1928
Jack LINDSAY : Dionysos - Nietzsche Contra Nietzsche
(1928 Fanfrolico Press, London) - 500
(Ed) Jack LINDSAY : Inspiration - An Anthology of Utterances by Creative Minds
(1928 Fanfrolico Press) - 725
NIETZSCHE : The Antichrist of Nietzsche - A New Version in English
(1928 Fanfrolico Press) - 550. Norman Lindsay
John SKELTON : The Tunning of Eleanor Rumming
(1928 Fanfrolico Press)
Alfred LINDSAY : Hyperborea : Two Fantastic Travel Essays
(1928 Fanfrolico Press) - 725
John ELIOT : The Parlement of Pratlers : A Sreies of Elizabethan Dialogues & Monologues
(1928 Fanfrolico Press, London) - 625. Edited by Jack Lindsay. Hal Collins
Thomas BEDDOES : The Complete Works
(1928 Fanfrolico Press, London) - 2 vols. 750 numbered
Hugh McRAE : Satyrs and Sunlight - Being the Collected Poetry
(1928 Fanfrolico Press) - 550. Norman Lindsay

1929
Lord BYRON : Manfred - A Tragedy
(1929 Fanfrolico Press) - Ltd Ed 550.
Decorated by Frederick Carter
CATULLUS : The Complete Poetry
(Trans by Jack Lindsay) (1929 Fanfrolico Press)
- 325. Lionel Ellis engravings
THEOCRITUS : Complete Poems
(1929 Fanfrolico) - Lionel Ellis
The London Aphrodite : A Miscellany of Poems, stories & essays by Various Hands
(1929 Fanfrolico Press) - ed by Jack Lindsay & P R Stephensen

1930
AUSONIUS : Patchwork Quilt : Poems done into English by Jack Lindsay
(nd.1930 Fanfrolico Press, London) - decorated Edward Bawden. 400
Lord CHESTERFIELD : Chesterfield's Correspondence with Various Ladies
(1930 Fanfrolico Press) - 480. Jeanne Bellon
Homer's Hymns to Aphrodite
(c1930 Fanfrolico Press, London) - 300
The Works of Cyril Tourneur
(1930 Fanfrolico Press) - Frederick Carter
Philip LINDSAY : An Account Biographical & Informative of the Later Days of Sir Henry Morgan,
Admiral of Buccaneers
(1930 Fanfrolico Press) - 450 signed. Raymond Lindsay
Elza de LOCRE : Older Than Earth
(1930 Fanfrolico Press) - 175
William MORRIS : The Defence of Guenevere and King Arthur's Tomb
(1930 Fanfrolico Press) - 450. Decorations by D G Rossetti
Cyril TOURNEUR : The Works
(Edited by Allardyce Nicoll)
(1930 Fanfrolico Press) - 750. Frederick Carter

READING
Fanfrolicana June 1928 : Being a Statement of the Aims of the Fanfrolico Press
(1928 FP, London)
Jack Lindsay : Fanfrolico and After
(1962 Bodley Head)

Related Writers

Edward Bawden
William Blake
John Donne
Jack Lindsay
William Morris


See also

George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron