London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1897. Original gilt pictorial slate blue cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. With illustrations by J. Bernard Partridge. A little foxed and spine a trifle cocked, but a good copy. First edition in book form. Originally published as a series in PUNCH under the title "Jottings and.....
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1889. Three volumes. Original slate cloth, decorated and lettered in red. Cloth a little soiled and bubbled; inner hinges cracked in volume two, with evidence of neat repair, spines a bit cocked, newscutting tipped to front pastedown of first volume, otherwise a very good copy.....
London & Calcutta: W. H. Allen & Co., 1890. Slate blue pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in green, dark blue and dark gray. Spine slightly cocked, some modest rubbing to cloth, front inner hinge cracking at crown, still, a good, sound copy. First edition of this collection of.....
Hannover: Paul Steegemann Verlag, [1920]. 275,[1]pp. Small octavo. Full stiff vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Vellum a bit soiled and boards bowed, small spot at crown of spine, finger-tip size spot on lower board, otherwise a very good copy. First printing of this translation. One of 100 copies bound thus.....
Aylesford, Kent: St. Albert's Press, Autumn 1966. VIII:2. Decorated wrapper. Plates. Slight bumps to two corners, otherwise fine. A special number devoted, in part, to "Aubrey Beardsley and the 1890's," including Brocard Sewell on the V&A Beardsley exhibition. In the postally used envelope addressed to Dr. Noel Cortés.
Philadelphia: The Rosenbach Galleries, May 1919. 10pp. Decorated wrappers. First edition. The exhibition was, of course, an offer for sale, and prices were available "upon application." Printed and manuscript items are also listed. Chip at lower edge of front wrapper, else very good.
Boston: Thomas G. Boss, 1995. Large octavo. Cloth. Facsimiles. New in dust jacket. First edition of this highly useful, descriptive, annotated reference to Beardsley's work as writer and artist, including books and ephemera.
[New York]: E. P. Dutton, [1909]. liv,624pp. Thick quarto. Green cloth, spine and upper board elaborately gilt extra. Plates, illustrations, ornaments and pictorial boards. Neat 1909 ownership inscription on free endsheet, trace of tanning to endsheets, a couple small rubs at tips, but a near fine, bright copy, and unusual.....
New York & London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1897. 52,[3]pp. Small octavo (17 x 13.5 cm). Original stiff printed pictorial wrapper, edges untrimmed. Narrow 4 cm loss along the top of the extreme overlap fore-edge of upper wrapper, trace of foxing along lower fore-edge of upper wrapper, tiny early.....
New York: Breitkopf and Hartell, [ca. 1897]. 92pp. Small folio (34 x 27.5 cm). Khaki cloth, elaborately decorated in green, gilt and dark brown with a floral art nouveau motif (signed 'M.M'). Pictorial endsheets. Publisher's address revision stamp on title below imprint, some pencil annotations, otherwise a very near fine.....
[Boston: Copeland and Day], 1895. Small quarto. Publisher's original printed paper wrapper over boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Tiny tears in wrapper at tips of joints, some offset from fold-ins to endsheets, otherwise near fine. First printing in this format. One of 500 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper.....
New York: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1896. [3]-12,[1]pp. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Some foxing and soiling, wrappers a bit worn and creased, but a good, partially unopened copy. An interesting separate trade catalogue for the New York branch, including press notices, and offering a page of Vale Press imprints.....
London: Privately Reprinted for John Lane and His Friends, Christmas 1894. 12mo. Cloth-backed stiff wrappers. Portrait. Wrappers a bit chipped and frayed at overlap edges, but a good copy, with the presentation slip laid in. A reprinting of this autobiographical essay, serving as the Lane's holiday greeting for the year.....
London: At the Sign of the Unicorn / Elkin Mathews. 1904. Quarto (29.5 x 19cm). Cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. Plates. Boards slightly dust soiled, with small bumps and bruises at foretips, otherwise a very good copy. First edition, ordinary issue. Illustrations by Clinton Balmer. According to Colbeck, one of.....
Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1895. Large octavo. Linen and printed pictorial boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Endsheets and margins foxed, spine extremities darkened, otherwise a very good copy. First edition thus. One of 600 numbered copies, printed on handmade paper. Copiously illustrated and decorated with plates, initials and decorative borders.....
San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1951. 27,[3]pp. Printed wrappers. Frontis portrait and illustrations. Light use and creasing at overlap wrapper edges, internally fine. First edition. One of 1000 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom. Essay "The Gay Nineties" by Bradley, introduction by Robert O. Schad.
[London: Printed by William Clowes & Son, 1894(?)]. 7,[1]pp. Octavo. Self-wrappers. Near fine. First edition. A surprisingly uncommon separate of this address delivered by Cobden- Sanderson on the Friday evening of 2 February 1894. OCLC/Worldcat locates two copies: Syracuse and UC Berkeley. COPAC returns no locations.
Boston: Copeland and Day, 1897. Printed wrappers. Small nick to spine, faint discoloration at lower foretip of upper wrapper, chipping to edges of lower wrapper, internally fine. First U.S. edition thus, as the second in the Imaginary Portrait series. 500 copies were printed.
[Boston: Copeland & Day], Christmas 1896. Sewn printed wrappers. Quite chipped at grossly over-extended wrapper edges, internally fine and unopened, First edition of one of the five privately printed Christmas books distributed to friends of Copeland & Day and the author. Uncommon in the wild.
Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. Small octavo. Cream paper over boards, with stylized orchid device by F.C. Gordon stamped in black. Some wear at extremities, with small chip and hairline crack near and parallel to lower joint; just a good copy of this fragile book, internally about fine. Half morocco.....
New York: Cooper Square, 1966. Grey cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Crane. Four black & white facsimiles of drafts and title pages. First edition, edited with notes by Joseph Katz. Near fine in very good dust jacket with small chip at toe of spine.
[Oxford: Printed by H. Daniel, 1894. Small octavo. Printed wrapper. Wrapper tanned at spine and edges, spine chipped and lower wrapper neatly detached; internally, apart from some light occasional foxing, very good. First edition in book form of "The Child in the House," first printed in MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE (August 1878).....
London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1892. Three volumes. Original medium green textured cloth, ruled in blind, spines lettered in gilt. Spine lettering very slightly dull, endsheets a bit tanned, a few minor smudges to cloth, but a very good, tight set, with the bookplate of Pickford Waller in each volume. First.....
New York: John Lane, 1895. Small octavo. Somewhat later unlettered grey wrappers. Light dust soiling, else a very good copy. First edition. Printed in order to secure American copyright prior to publication in FLEET STREET ECLOGUES in 1896.
London: E. Grant Richards, 1907. Gilt cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Minor rubbing, usual slight offsetting to endsheets, but a very good copy. First edition. Inscribed by the author to his publisher on the title-page: "To my dear E. Grant Richards John Davidson April 11. 07." This work constitutes Part I......
