Charles Edward Sayle from A. W. Pollard's obituary in 'The Library' of 1924

Charles Edward Sayle (6 December 1864 – 4 July 1924) was an English Uranian poet, literary scholar and librarian. He was the youngest son of Robert Sayle, a wealthy salesman, and Priscilla Caroline Sayle. He served as an under-librarian at Cambridge University Library.[1] His works include Bertha: a story of love (1885), Wicliff: an historical drama (1887), Erotidia (1889), Musa Consolatrix (1893), Private Music (1911) and Cambridge Fragments (1913).[2] He also edited an anthology of verse, In Praise of Music (1897) and compiled Annals of Cambridge University Library; 1278-1900 (1916). He edited the 3-volume Works of Sir Thomas Browne; volumes I & II were published in 1904 by Grant Richards in London;[3][4] volume III was published in 1907 by John Grant in Edinburgh.[5]

Charles Sayle's salon, a circle of bright, handsome and predominantly homosexual young men who congregated at his house in Cambridge, included Rupert Brooke,[6] George Mallory,[7] Augustus Bartholomew and Geoffrey Keynes.

Sayle's publisher was Bernard Quaritch, a bookseller who specialised in unpopular but praiseworthy scholastic publications.[8]

Notes

  1. ↑ Bibliographical Society: The Library (periodical). Oxford University Press, 1925.
  2. ↑ Colbeck, Norman ( 1987) A Bookman's Catalogue, M-End UBC Press; p. 728
  3. ↑ Sayle, Charles, ed. (1904). The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Vol. I. (See Thomas Browne.)
  4. ↑ Sayle, Charles, ed. (1904). The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Vol. II.
  5. ↑ "Review of Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Vol. III, edited by Charles Sayle". The Athenaeum (4173): 473–474. 19 October 1907.
  6. ↑ Adrian Caesar, 'Brooke, Rupert Chawner (1887–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008
  7. ↑ Peter H. Hansen, 'Mallory, George Herbert Leigh (1886–1924)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011
  8. ↑ Arthur Freeman, 'Quaritch, Bernard Alexander Christian (1819–1899)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009
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