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[JOHNSON, LIONEL]. DARLEY, GEORGE. Nepenthe. A Poem in Two Cantos...Introduction by R.A. Streatfield, Elkin Mathews, 1897, boards, paper label, soiled and worn at corners, Second Edition, (the first was privately printed c. 1839 and is apparently known in but 3 copies), woodcut frontispiece by Laurence Binyon, LIONEL JOHNSON'S COPY, INSCRIBED BY HIM on front free endpaper: "Lionel Johnson from Laurence Binyon: 1897." Hayward 241. Ownership inscriptions of the poet and publisher Victor B. Neuburg and of Roger Senhouse on front endpapers--BINYON, LAURENCE. The Death of Adam and Other Poems, 1904, cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Charles S. Ricketts and Charles H. Shannon on the half-title: "To C.S.R. & C.H.S. L.B. 1903"; both London, together 2 vols., 8vo, original bindings, cloth slipcases. (2)

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[JOHNSON, LIONEL]. DARLEY, GEORGE. Nepenthe. A Poem in Two Cantos...Introduction by R.A. Streatfield, Elkin Mathews, 1897, boards, paper label, soiled and worn at corners, Second Edition, (the first was privately printed c. 1839 and is apparently known in but 3 copies), woodcut frontispiece by Laurence Binyon, LIONEL JOHNSON'S COPY, INSCRIBED BY HIM on front free endpaper: "Lionel Johnson from Laurence Binyon: 1897." Hayward 241. Ownership inscriptions of the poet and publisher Victor B. Neuburg and of Roger Senhouse on front endpapers--BINYON, LAURENCE. The Death of Adam and Other Poems, 1904, cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Charles S. Ricketts and Charles H. Shannon on the half-title: "To C.S.R. & C.H.S. L.B. 1903"; both London, together 2 vols., 8vo, original bindings, cloth slipcases. (2)