ISBN10: 1907222235, ISBN13: 9781907222238, [publisher: London:Strange Attractor Press] Hardcover First Edition Stated first edition. 8vo aqua cloth, gilt spine titles, crisp and clean, appears unread. Dust jacket has small blemish to spine where pricetag removed, pos to fep ow NF/vgdj: Xxvii+392pp, index;/ Copiously annotated and researched, with extensivew footnotes, Raven brings previously supporting characters who crossed paths with Frederick Rolfe into outed focus. Brilliant, original research on Frederick William Rolfe (1860-1913), better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, a writer, novelist, artist, fantasist and turn-of-the-century gay British eccentric whose unusual fiction has inspired a cult following. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1886 and was confirmed by Cardinal Manning. With his conversion came a vocation to priesthood despite being never realised. The Yellow Book published a series called Stories Toto Told Me (1898), humourous retellings of Italian peasant legends about the saints, later collected in book form and with a sequel, In His Own Image. Later works include Chronicles of the House of Borgia (1901), an idiosyncratic historical study in refulgently Baroque prose; Tarcissus the Boy Martyr of Rome (1901); Nicholas Crabbe (1903); Hadrian the Seventh (1904), in which an Englishman is unexpectedly elected Pope; Don Tarquinio (1905); Don Renato (1907) and The Weird of the Wanderer ...