“ MOXON, EDWARD (1801–1858) , British poet and publisher, was born at Wakefield in 1801. In 1826 he published a volume of verse, entitled The Prospect, and other Poems, which was received with some favour. In 1830 Moxon was started by Samuel Rogers as a London publisher in New Bond Street. The first volume he issued was Charles Lamb’s Album Verses. Removing to Dover Street, Piccadilly, Moxon published an illustrated edition of Rogers’s Italy, £10,000 being spent upon the illustrations. ”