[PAGET, VIOLET]. Miss Brown. A Novel. By Vernon Lee. Edinburgh and London: Blackwood 1884. 3 vols., 8vo, original tan cloth, blocked in black, spines gilt-lettered, rubbed, two spines a trifle soiled, inner hinges cracked or cracking, cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION of a rare three-decker, dedicated to Henry James (much to his consternation -- he thought this novel about the world of the Aesthetes in London too overheated and too erotic). Stetz & Lasner 103; Wolff 5376; Fredeman 81.3 ("A roman à clef on Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites"). (3)

[PAGET, VIOLET]. Miss Brown. A Novel. By Vernon Lee. Edinburgh and London: Blackwood 1884. 3 vols., 8vo, original tan cloth, blocked in black, spines gilt-lettered, rubbed, two spines a trifle soiled, inner hinges cracked or cracking, cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION of a rare three-decker, dedicated to Henry James (much to his consternation -- he thought this novel about the world of the Aesthetes in London too overheated and too erotic). Stetz & Lasner 103; Wolff 5376; Fredeman 81.3 ("A roman à clef on Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites"). (3)

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[PAGET, VIOLET]. Miss Brown. A Novel. By Vernon Lee. Edinburgh and London: Blackwood 1884. 3 vols., 8vo, original tan cloth, blocked in black, spines gilt-lettered, rubbed, two spines a trifle soiled, inner hinges cracked or cracking, cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION of a rare three-decker, dedicated to Henry James (much to his consternation -- he thought this novel about the world of the Aesthetes in London too overheated and too erotic). Stetz & Lasner 103; Wolff 5376; Fredeman 81.3 ("A roman à clef on Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites"). (3)