Male : Poet, Novelist, Editor & Playwright. First editor of the Everyman Series. With the Publisher Joseph Mallaby Dent, they dreamed up the series in 1906. By 1910 they had published 500 titles. Rhys wrote of 130 introductions for the series. Married Grace Little 1891

Nationality : Welsh Place of Birth : Islington, London

Date of Birth : 1859 Date of Death : 1946 Age : 87

Other Work : Mining Engineer

Education : Bishop Stortford GS

1891-1900
The Great Cockney Tragedy, or The New Simple Simon (1891 T Fisher Unwin pb) - Jack Butler Yeats
A London Rose & other Poems (1894 Elkin Mathews / John Lane) - 700
Sir Frederic Leighton : An Illustrated Record of His Life & Works
(1895 George Bell) (1895 Bell - de luxe edition 85)
The Prelude to Poetry (1895 Dent)
The Fiddler of Carne : A North Sea Winter's Tale
(1896 Patrick Geddes, Edinburgh / Simpkin Marshall)
The Garden of Romance (1897 Kegan Paul)
(Ed) Literary Pamphlets (1897 Kegan Paul) - 2 vols
Hampstead Annual 1898 (1899 Mayle pb)
Welsh Ballads & other Poems (1898 David Nutt / Spurrell / Jarvis & Foster)
The Whistling Maid : A Romance (1900 Hutchinson)

1901-1910
Readings in Welsh History (1901 Longmans) - Lancelot Speed
The Man at Odds : A Story of the Welsh Coast & the Severn Sea (1904 Hurst & Blackett)
Thomas Dekker : Poems (1904 T Fisher Unwin)
Lays of the Round Table and Other Lyric Romances (1905 Dent)
Gwenevere (1905 Dent pb) - Play
Enid (1905 Dent pb) - Play
(Ed) Fairy Gold : A Book of English Fairy tales (1906 Dent) - Herbert Cole
The Masque of the Grail (1908 Elkin Mathews pb) - Play. 1000
(Ed) Mother Goose's Book of Nursery Rhymes & Songs (1910 Everyman Library) - with Grace Rhys

1911-1920
The South Wales Coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth (1911 T Fisher Unwin)
(Ed) The English Fairy Book (1912 T Fisher Unwin) - Frederic C Witney
(Ed) English Fairy Tales (1913 Dent) - Herbert Cole & R Anning Bell
Lyric Poetry (1913 Dent)
Romance (1913 Batsford)
Browning and His Poetry (1914 Harrap)
The Roar of Battle (1914 Jarrold)
Rabindranath Tagore : A Biographical Study (1915 Macmillan)
The Old Country : A Book of Love & Praise of England (1917 Dent)
The Leaf Burners & other Poems (1918 Dent)

1921-1925
The Haunters and the Haunted : Ghost Stories and Tales of the Supernatural
(1922 Daniel O'Connor)
Modern English Essays (1922 Dent) - 5 vols
(Ed) Thirty and One Stories (1923 Thornton Butterworth) - with C A Dawson-Scott
Readings in welsh Literature (1924 Hughes)
(Ed) Poems by Henry Vaughan (1924 Gregynog Press)
- wood engravings by R A Maynard & H W Bray
470 copies + de luxe ed 30 copies
(Ed) Twenty and Three Stories (1924 Thornton Butterworth) - with C A Dawson-Scott
(Ed) Old and New Love Stories (1925 Robert Holden) - with C A Dawson-Scott
Black Horse Pit (1925 Robert Holden)

1926-1930
(Ed) Chosen Essays by Edward Thomas (1926 Gregynog Press)
- wood engravings by R A Maynard & H W Bray. 317 copies + de luxe ed 33 copies
(Ed) Twenty-Seven Humorous Tales (1926 Hutchinson) - with C A Dawson-Scott
(Ed) Tales of Mystery (1927 Hutchinson) - with C A Dawson-Scott
(Ed) The Life of Saint David (1927 Gregynog Press)
- wood engravings by R A Maynard & H W Bray
150 copies + 25 de luxe copies
(Ed) A Book of Nonsense with Struwwelpeter (1927 Dent Everyman Library)
(Ed) Mainly Horses (1929 D Appleton) - with C A Dawson-Scott
(Ed) 26 Adventure Stories, Old and New (1929 D Appleton) - with C A Dawson-Scott
(Ed) Tales from Far and Near (1930 D Appleton) - with C A Dawson-Scott

After 1931
Everyman Remembers (1931 Dent) - Autobiography
(Ed) The Land of Nursery Rhymes (1932 Dent) - Charles Folkard
Rhymes for Everyman (1933 Lovat Dickson) - frontis & tailpiece by ohn Nash
(Ed) A Christmas Holiday Book (1934 Dent) - Mary Shillabeer
(In) The Best Poems of 1935 (selected by Thomas Moult) (1935 Cape)
Song of the Sun (1937 Dent) - Poetry
Wales England Wed (1940 Dent) - Autobiography
A Breviary of Books in Wartime (1941 Dent, Everyman pamphlets series)

READING
R Farquharson Sharp : Reader's Guide to the Everyman's Library : A Catalogue of the
First 888 Vols (1932 Dent)
Joseph Mallaby Dent : The House of Dent 1888-1938 (1938 Dent)
Dorothy A Harrop : A History of the Gregynog Press (1980 Private Libraries Assoc)
Roberts J Kimberley : Ernest Rhys (1983 Univ of Wales Press/Welsh Arts Council pb)