DAVIDSON, JOHN. Plays. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane; Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1894. Small 4to, original cream buckram, gilt figure (reproducing title-page vignette) on front cover, spine gilt-lettered, bevelled edges, uncut, spine a bit darkened, sides slightly soiled; half morocco slipcase. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of his plays, limited to 500 copies, in a rare variant (trial?) binding (usual binding is purple buckram), with a black and white frontispiece (caricaturing Oscar Wilde, Henry Harland, etc.) and a title-page vignette by Aubrey Beardsley (see Lasner 58). Krishamurti 175 & 176 (white/cream and purple buckram); Kramer 17 (purple buckram). Bookplate of Samuel Davies -- The Last Rose. Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1895. Leaflet, 4 pp., 8vo, deckle edges; in half morocco slipcase with following item. FIRST EDITION of this poem printed to secure the American copyright (customarily in a printing of 12 copies), with holograph limitation notice by the publishers on p. [2]: "Of this edition on handmade paper several copies have been printed - four of which are for sale. No. 3, Stone & Kimball." Kramer, p. 859 (no copy examined). Fine condition -- St. George's Day. A Fleet Street Eclogue. New York: John Lane, 1895. 8vo, original printed tan wrappers; in half morocco slipcase with preceding item. FIRST EDITION, one of a small number of copies printed to secure American copyright (printing run usually given as 12, but four other copies are offered here in several other lots). A fine copy. (3)