Male : Writer, Blackmailer, Con Man, Pauper and Pederast. Failed schoolmaster, painter and photographer. Literary genius. (See "the Quest for Corvo" by A J A Symons 1934). From 1908 he lived in Venice

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Cheapside, London

Date of Birth : 1860 Date of Death : 1913 Age : 53

Pseudonyms : Baron Corvo

Education : St Mary's Seminary, Oscott. Expelled from the Scots College in Rome after five months

1880-1900
Tarcissus : the Boy Martyr of Rome (1880 privately printed by Broadman, Saffron Walden) - Anon
Stories Toto told me (1898 Bodley Head)
The Attack on St Winefride's Hall (1898 privately printed) - pamphlet

1901-1925
In His own Image (1901 Bodley Head)
Chronicles of the House of Borgia (1901 Grant Richards, London/Dutton NY)
(Trans) The Rubaiyat of Umar Khaiyam (1903 John Lane)
Agricultural and Pastoral prospects of South Africa (by Col Owen Thomas)
(1904 Archibald Constable) - ghosted by Rolfe
Hadrian the Seventh (1904 Chatto & Windus)
Don Tarquinio : A Kataleptic Phantasmatic Romance (1905 Chatto & Windus)
Don Renato : An Ideal Content (1909 Francis Griffiths)
The Weird of the Wanderer (by Prospero & Caliban(1912 William Rider)

1926-1950
The Bull Against the Enemy of the Anglican Race (1929 the Corvine Society) - pamphlet
Hubert's Arthur (by Prospero & caliban) (1935 Cassell)
The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole : A Romance of Modern Venice (1934 Cassell)
Hubert's Arthur (1935 Cassell)
The Songs of Meleager (1937 First Edition Club, London) - 750
A Catalogue of Letters, MS, Papers and Books (1946 George Frederick Sims) - 600
Three Tales of Venice (1950 Corvine Press) - 150 in quarter leather

1951-1960
Amico di Sandro : A Fragment of a novel (1951 Peacock Press) - 150
Offered in 1999 for £200
Letters to Grant Richards (1951 Peacock Press) - 200
Offered in 1999 for £275
The Cardinal Prefect of Propaganda (1957 Nicholas Vane, London) - 262
Nicholas Crabbe, or The One and the Many (1958 Chatto & Windus) - 215 De Luxe
Letters to Pirie-Gordon & Leonard Moore (1959-60 Nicholas Vane, London) - 350. 2 vols
The Centenary Edition of the Letters of Frederick William Rolfe (1959 N Vane)
A Letter to Father Beauclerk (1960 Tragara Press)
Letters to Leonard Moore (1960 Cecil & Amelia Woolf)

1961-1970
Letters of Baron Corvo to Kenneth Grahame (1962 Peacock Press)
Don Renato : An Ideal Content (1963 Chatto & Windus) - 200
Without Prejudice - 100 Letters from Frederick William Rolfe, Baron Corvo, to John Lane
(1963 PP) - 600
A Letter to a small Nephew named Claude (1964 Iowa City)
A Selection from the 'Venice Letters' (in) Art and Letters (1964 Lausanne)
Stories Toto Told By Me (1969 Collins) (1969 NY)

1971-1975
Letters to James Walsh (1972 Bertram Rota) - 500
Ballade of Boys Bathing (1972 Officina Mauritania) - single sheet folded. 200
Ballade of Boys Bathing (1972 Tragara Press)
Collected Poems of Fr Rolfe, Baron Corvo (1974 Cecil & Amelia Woolf) - 200
The Reverse Side of the Coin : Some Further Correspondence betwen Frederick
William Rolfe and Grant Richards (1974 Tragara Press) - 95
The Venice Letters (1974 C & A Woolf) - 200
The Armed Hands and Other Stories (1974 C & A Woolf) - 200
Aberdeen Interval (1975 Tragara Press)

After 1976
Different Aspects : Frederick William Rolfe and the Foreign Office (1976 Tragara Press)
Frederick Rolf and "The Times" 4-12 Feb 1977 (1975 Tragara Press)
Letters to Harry Bainbridge (1977 Enitharmon Press) - 395
The Venice Letters (1987 Cecil & Amelia Woolf) - 100

READING
A J A Symons : The Quest for Corvo (1934 Cassell)
Cecil Woolf : A Bibliography of Frederick Wolfe, Baron Corvo (1957 Hart-Davis 52/6)
(1972 Hart-Davis)
Miriam J Benkovitz : Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo - A Bibliography (1977)