Richard Herne Shepherd

Richard Herne Shepherd (1842–1895) was an English bibliographer.

Shepherd, born at Chelsea early in 1842, was a younger son of Samuel Shepherd, F.S.A. His grandfather, Richard Herne Shepherd (1775–1850), was from 1818 to 1848 a well-known Christian revivalist preacher at the Ranelagh Chapel, Chelsea, and published, besides sermons and devotional works, a volume of meditative verse entitled Gatherings of Fifty Years (1843).

The younger Richard was educated largely at home, developed a taste for literature, and published at the age of sixteen a copy of verses entitled Annus Moriens (1858).

In 1861 he issued an essay on The School of Pantagruel, in which he traced 'Pantagruelism' in England from Rochester to Sterne. Subsequently he edited booksellers' editions of the classics, including William Blake's Poems (1868 and 1874), Shelley's Poems (1871), Lamb's Poetry for Children (1872 and 1878), Chapman's Works (1874), Lamb's Works (1875), Ebenezer Jones's Poems (1879), Poe's Works (1884), Dickens's Speeches (1884), Dickens's Plays and Poems (1885), and Shelley's Prose Works (1888).

In 1869 he published Translations from Baudelaire (reissued 1877, 12mo); in 1873 he printed, with notes, Coleridge's forgotten tragedy Osorio, and in 1875 The Lover's Tale (of 1833) and other early uncollected poems of Tennyson (unearthed from albums and periodicals). Fifty copies were privately printed in 1875, but the volume was suppressed by injunction in the Court of Chancery.

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