Aubrey Beardsley: Poems | with an introduction and notes by Matthew Sturgis.
Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1998. Stated second impression. Octavo. Bound in original orange Colorplan wrappers, with printed paper label to the upper cover. [iv], 5-46, [+ colophon] pp. Adhesive split between the last two gatherings, else a Very Good copy. One of 50 copies printed by Alan Anderson for The Eighteen Nineties Society, on Teton paper. Copies 1-10 were bound in marbled wrappers, and copies 26-50 were bound in Colorplan Wrappers. There was also a separate state, also bound in Colorplan, issued as a guide for a contemporaneous exhibition of Beardsley’s work held at the V & A. This copy is one of a presumed 15 hors d’commerce, and is inscribed to Greg Gatenby by the editor on the front free endpaper: ‘For Greg | in admiration, from the slim editor of this slim volume; Matthew S. | X. 98.’
[Halliwell, Private Commissions, 99b.]. Item #84
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