DAVIDSON, JOHN. Smith. A Tragedy. Glasgow: Frederick W. Wilson and Brother, 1888. 12mo, original printed limp vellum, uncut, ends of spine worn, covers soiled. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO OSCAR WILDE, inscribed by Davidson at top of title-page: "Oscar Wilde from J.D." 300 copies were originally printed, but most were remaindered and were subsequently purchased by John Lane who included Smith in volumes of Davidson's plays in 1894. Colbeck Collection, vol. 1, p. 180; Krishnamurti, The Eighteen-Nineties, 172. "The Eighteen Nineties had no more remarkable mind and no more distinctive poet than John Davidson. From the beginning he was both an expression of and a protest against the decadent movement, and in his personality as well as in his tragic end [suicide by drowning in 1909] he represented the struggle and defeat of his day in the cause of a bigger sense of life and a greater power over personality and destiny" (Holbrook Jackson, The Eighteen Nineties, London, 1922, p.177).

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DAVIDSON, JOHN. Smith. A Tragedy. Glasgow: Frederick W. Wilson and Brother, 1888. 12mo, original printed limp vellum, uncut, ends of spine worn, covers soiled. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO OSCAR WILDE, inscribed by Davidson at top of title-page: "Oscar Wilde from J.D." 300 copies were originally printed, but most were remaindered and were subsequently purchased by John Lane who included Smith in volumes of Davidson's plays in 1894. Colbeck Collection, vol. 1, p. 180; Krishnamurti, The Eighteen-Nineties, 172. "The Eighteen Nineties had no more remarkable mind and no more distinctive poet than John Davidson. From the beginning he was both an expression of and a protest against the decadent movement, and in his personality as well as in his tragic end [suicide by drowning in 1909] he represented the struggle and defeat of his day in the cause of a bigger sense of life and a greater power over personality and destiny" (Holbrook Jackson, The Eighteen Nineties, London, 1922, p.177).