EDWARD

See also:

• EDWARD MOXON (18o1-1858)

MOXON (18o1-1858)  , British poet and publisher, was born at Wakefield in 18o1 . In 1826 he published a volume of verse, entitled The Prospect, and other Poems, which was received with some favour . In 1830 Moxon was started by Samuel Rogers as a London publisher in New Bond Street . The first volume he issued was Charles Lamb's Album Verses . Removing to Dover Street, Piccadilly, Moxon published an illustrated edition of Rogers's Italy, £1o,000 being spent upon the illustrations . Wordsworth entrusted him with the publication of his works from 1835 onwards, and in 1839 he issued the first complete edition of Shelley's poems . Some passages in Queen Mab were the cause of a charge of blasphemy being made against Moxon in 1841 . The case was tried before Lord Denman . Serjeant Talfourd defended Moxon, but the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the offensive passages were for a time eliminated . In 184o he published Browning's Sordello; and in succeeding years works by Lord Houghton, Tom Hood, Barry Cornwall, Lord Lytton, Browning and Tennyson appeared . Edward Moxon died on the 3rd of June 1858, his business being continued by Mr J . B .

Payne and Mr Arthur Moxon, who in 1865 published Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon; but in 1871 it was taken over by Messrs Ward, Lock & Tyler .