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PHYLLIS GOODHART GORDAN
GRAY, JOHN. Silverpoints. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1893. Tall, narrow 8vo, original light green cloth decorated in a gilt water and willow leaf design, uncut, designed by Charles Ricketts, spine slightly darkened, rear cover a little soiled, upper fore-corners bumped, natural discoloration to free endpapers. FIRST EDITION, no. 94 of 250 copies bound in cloth of an edition of 275. The Turn of the Century 8; Taylor, The Art Nouveau Book in Britain, p. 82; see Ray English, pp. 161-62. Oscar Wilde is said to have financed the publication of Silverpoints, considered Ricketts's most successful trade book and one of the most characteristic books of the Nineties. Armorial bookplate of Cecil W. Boyle.
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GRAY, JOHN. Silverpoints. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1893. Tall, narrow 8vo, original light green cloth decorated in a gilt water and willow leaf design, uncut, designed by Charles Ricketts, spine slightly darkened, rear cover a little soiled, upper fore-corners bumped, natural discoloration to free endpapers. FIRST EDITION, no. 94 of 250 copies bound in cloth of an edition of 275. The Turn of the Century 8; Taylor, The Art Nouveau Book in Britain, p. 82; see Ray English, pp. 161-62. Oscar Wilde is said to have financed the publication of Silverpoints, considered Ricketts's most successful trade book and one of the most characteristic books of the Nineties. Armorial bookplate of Cecil W. Boyle.