Richard Herne Shepherd (1842–1895) was an English bibliographer.

Life

He was born at Chelsea early in 1842, a younger son of Samuel Shepherd, F.S.A. His grandfather, Richard Herne Shepherd (1775–1850), was from 1818 to 1848 a well-known

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ist preacher at the Ranelagh Chapel, Chelsea, and published, besides sermons and devotional works, a volume of meditative verse entitled ''Gatherings of Fifty Years'' (1843). Richard Herne Shepherd the younger was educated largely at home, developed a taste for literature, and published at the age of sixteen a copy of verses entitled ''Annus Moriens'' (1858). Shepherd died in London on 15 July 1895.

Works

In 1861 Shepherd issued an essay on ''The School of Pantagruel'', in which he traced " Pantagruelism" in England from Rochester to Sterne. Subsequently, he edited booksellers' editions of the classics, including

William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the Romantic poetry, poetry and visual art of the Roma ...

's ''Poems'' (1868 and 1874), Shelley's ''Poems'' (1871), Lamb's ''Poetry for Children'' (1872 and 1878), Chapman's ''Works'' (1874), Lamb's ''Works'' (1875),

Ebenezer Jones Ebenezer Jones (20 January 1820 – 14 September 1860) was an English poet who wrote a good deal of poetry of very unequal merit, but at his best shows a true poetic vein. He was befriended by Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti. Life He was ...

's ''Poems'' (1879), Poe's ''Works'' (1884),

Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the great ...

's ''Speeches'' (1884), Dickens's ''Plays and Poems'' (1885), and Shelley's ''Prose Works'' (1888). In 1869 Shepherd published ''Translations from

Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, an ...

'' (reissued 1877, 12mo); in 1873 he printed, with notes,

Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( ; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth ...

's tragedy ''

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'', and in 1875 ''The Lover's Tale'' (of 1833) and other early uncollected poems of

Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's ...

(unearthed from albums and periodicals). Fifty copies were privately printed in 1875, but the volume was suppressed by injunction in the Court of Chancery. In 1878 Shepherd published

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work receiv ...

's ''Earlier Poems'' without the assent of the writer's living representatives, who keenly resented his action. In the like character of literary ''chiffonnier,'' he prepared editions in the same year of the ''Juvenilia'' of

Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", ''The Song of Hiawatha'', and ''Evangeline''. He was the first American to complet ...

and Moore; and ''Sultan Stork'', a volume of juvenile pieces by

Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray ( ; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1847–1848 novel '' Vanity Fair'', a panoramic portrait of British society, and t ...

, in 1887. In 1878 there appeared an pasticcio of biographical and bibliographical gossip in Shepherd's ''Waltoniana''. In the next year he obtained 150''l''. damages from the ''

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'' newspaper for an ''injurious review'' of his revised edition of Lamb's ''Poetry for Children''. In 1881 he issued a dull ''Memoir of

Thomas Carlyle Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher. Known as the "Sage writing, sage of Chelsea, London, Chelsea", his writings strongly influenced the intellectual and artistic culture of the V ...

'', some passages in which had to be cancelled. Meanwhile, he studied

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, and prepared bibliographical accounts of

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(1879), Dickens (1880, revised 1884), Thackeray (1881, revised 1887 and appended to ''Sultan Stork''), Carlyle (1881), Mr. A. C. Swinburne (1883 and 1887), and Tennyson (issued posthumously in 1896, being an expansion of ''Tennysoniana'', 1866 and 1879). At the time of his death, Shepherd was preparing a bibliography of Coleridge for ''

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'', to which he was a frequent contributor.

Notes

Sources

Thomas Seccombe Thomas Seccombe (1866–1923) was a miscellaneous English writer and, from 1891 to 1901, assistant editor of the ''Dictionary of National Biography'', in which he wrote over 700 entries. A son of physician and episcopus vagans John Thomas S ...

(contrib.) "Shepherd, Richard Herne,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols. erbatim**citing:

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, 30 July 1895; ''

'', 1878, 1879, 1881, and 1895 ii. 323.]

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