Herbert P. Horne

Herbert Percy Horne (1864-1916). Courtesy izi travel.

Herbert Percy Horne
Born	February 18, 1864 London
Died	April 4, 1916 (aged 52) Florence, Italy
Occupation	English poet, architect, typographer / designer, art historian, antiquarian

Herbert Percy Horne (18 February 1864 - 4 April 1916) was an English poet, architect, typographer and designer, art historian, and antiquarian.

Life

Youth and education

Horne was born in London, the son of Hannah Louisa (Gibson) (died 1903) and Horace Horne (died 1894), a practicing architect.

He attended Kensington grammar school where the art critic for the Birmingham Post, D. Barron Brightwell (1834-1899) introduced him to art.

Career

Horne apprenticed to architect George Vigers in London, then moved to the studio of Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851-1942), becoming a partner in the 1880s.

Herbert Percy Horne (1864-1916). Courtesy luc.devroye.org.

He was an associate of the Rhymers' Club in London. He edited the magazines The Century Guild Hobby Horse and The Hobby Horse for the Century Guild of Artists.

He initially visited Italy in 1889, and kept an illustrated journal of his travels and art and architectural research.

In 1905 Horne moved to Florence, restoring a Renaissance palazzo into which he eventually moved. He founded the Riccardi Press, a leading British private press that beginning in 1909 issued titles for the Medici Society and later under its own imprint.

Horne died in Florence. He is buried in the Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori in the southern suburb of Florence, Galluzzo.

He donated his collection, of arts and handicrafts of the 14th and 15th centuries, to create the Museo della Fondazione Horne in Florence.

Publications

Poetry

• Various Colours. London: Chiswick Press, 1891
  • printed in U.S. as Diversi Colores.Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1908.

Non-fiction

• The Binding of Books: An essay in the history of gold-tooled bindings. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1894.
• Alessandro Filipepi commonly called Sandro Botticelli, painter of Florence. (3 volumes), London: G. Bell & Sons, 1908; Firenze, Italy: Studio per edizioni Scelte, 1987.
  • also printed as Botticelli: Painter of Florence. Princton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980.

Edited

• The Century Guild Hobby Horse (periodical). London: Kegan Paul, Trench, 1886.
• Nero, and other plays (edited by H.P. Horne, H. Ellis, A. Symons, & A.W. Verity). London: Fischer Unwin, 1888.
• The Hobby Horse (periodical). London: Elkin Mathews, 1891.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

See also

• List of British poets

References

• Rediscovering Herbert Horne: Poet, Architect, Typographer, Art Historian (1880–1920 British Authors Series, No 3), Ian Fletcher
• Edward Chaney & Jane Hall, ‘Herbert Horne’s 1889 Diary of his first Journey to Italy’, The Walpole Society LXIV (2002), 69-125.
• Codell, Julie. "Chelsea Bohemian: Herbert Percy Horne, the Critic as Artist," Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1978.
• Codell, Julie."Horne's Botticelli: Pre-Raphaelite Modernity, Historiography and the Aesthetic of Intensity," Journal of Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Studies, 2 (1989), 27-41.

External links

Poems

• "A Question and an Answer," "Alas"
• Horne in A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895: "Amico Suo," "Formosaw Puellae," "Nancy Dawson," "If She Be Made of White and Red"

Books

• Herbert P. Horne at Amazon.com

About

• Horne, Herbert P. (Herbert Percy), 1864-1916 at Social Networks and Archival Context
• Horne, Herbert P(ercy) at the Dictionary of Art Historians
• Herbert Percy Horne at luc.devroye.org