Miscellaneous. Late 19th/early 20th c literature and the art...

Hammer

£130

Miscellaneous. Late 19th/early 20th c literature and the arts, including the Decadent Movement, comprising an association copy, First Editions of Algernon Swinburne, New York: Dodd & Livingston, n.d. [1915], contemporary cloth over boards, gilt-lettered morocco vertical spine label, enclosing original wrappers, top-edge gilt, 8vo, an Aesthetic Movement theatre programme, The Darling of the Gods, His Majesty's Theatre, March 23rd, 1904, concertina format with 'Japanese' colour illustrations, 8vo, Ross (Robert), Aubrey Beardsley, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1909, original publisher's pictorial red cloth gilt, faded, top-edge gilt, other uncut, 8vo, Way (T.R.), Memories of James McNeill Whistler, copy no. 10/50, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1912, illustrated, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, Whistler's Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 1919, original cloth over boards, 8vo, R.L. Stevenson Memories, first edition, London & Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, n.d. [1912], original wrappers over boards, 8vo, Thomas Hardy, John Addington Symonds, other John Lane imprints, Richard Le Gallienne, etc., (21)

Provenance: 1st: Clement King Shorter (1857-1926), journalist and literary critic, presented to him by Luther S. Livingston (1864-1914), of the eponymous Dodd & Livingston, American bibliophile and scholar; verso of recto wrapper with autographed dedication inscription, pastedown with Shorter's pictorial bookplate.