Throughout his life, Rolfe was drawn to historical figures who had been rejected, disenfranchised and treated unjustly both by their contemporaries and by later historians. The story of the Stuart Pretenders, and their attempts to regain their throne, is a romantic and colourful one, with martyrs such as Charles I and Mary Queen of Scots in starring roles, and Rolfe did not hesitate to weave it through his own novels and essays.

With the publication of Robert Scoble's latest monograph in this series, the many Jacobites themes and references in Rolfe's work are brought into sharp relief. The reader is left in no doubt that the downfall of the Stuarts and the subsequent fading ambitions of the Jacobite Pretenders had a strong resonance for Frederick Rolfe. In the dashing of their hopes and claims, he came to see a reflection of his own lonely fate as a solitary and unrecognised genius.

The Raven Series has been planned as a set of scholarly essays which will add substantially to our knowledge of the life and work of Frederick Rolfe. Each essay is being published in a strictly limited edition, and there is little doubt that complete sets will be sought after by collectors in the years to come.

Of a full edition of 70, the first 12 copies of Rolfe the Jacobite constitute the special state, case bound in purple paper-covered boards with gilt titles, and signed by the author. Numbers 13-70 form the ordinary state of the edition, and are sewn into purple card covers with a paper label and acetate wrappers.

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