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EDWARD MOXON (18o1-1858)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 949 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:MOXON (18o1-1858)  , See also:British poet and publisher, was See also:born at See also:Wakefield in 18o1 . In 1826 he published a See also:volume of See also:verse, entitled The Prospect, and other Poems, which was received with some favour . In 1830 See also:Moxon was started by See also:Samuel See also:Rogers as a See also:London publisher in New See also:Bond See also:Street . The first volume he issued was See also:Charles See also:Lamb's See also:Album Verses . Removing to See also:Dover Street, Piccadilly, Moxon published an illustrated edition of Rogers's See also:Italy, £1o,000 being spent upon the illustrations . See also:Wordsworth entrusted him with the publication of his See also:works from 1835 onwards, and in 1839 he issued the first See also:complete edition of See also:Shelley's poems . Some passages in See also:Queen Mab were the cause of a See also:charge of See also:blasphemy being made against Moxon in 1841 . The See also:case was tried before See also:Lord See also:Denman . See also:Serjeant See also:Talfourd defended Moxon, but the See also:jury returned a See also:verdict of guilty, and the offensive passages were for a See also:time eliminated . In 184o he published See also:Browning's Sordello; and in succeeding years works by Lord See also:Houghton, Tom See also:Hood, See also:Barry See also:Cornwall, Lord See also:Lytton, Browning and See also:Tennyson appeared . See also:Edward Moxon died on the 3rd of See also:June 1858, his business being continued by Mr J . B .

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

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