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BEAUMONT PRESS -- WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). After Reading. Letters of Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross. London: Beaumont Press, 1921. 8° (214 x 143mm). 2 suites of woodcut illustrations by Ethelbert White (lower corner of first 4 leaves soiled, very light marginal waterstaining, heavier in last few leaves). Contemporary paper covers (lower corners of front and rear cover torn away, rear cover waterstained, soiled), cloth box. ADVANCE PROOF COPY, with 2 suites of proof illustrations pulled in black on two contrasting stocks of paper.
SYMONS, Arthur. The Café Royal and Other Essays. London: Beaumont Press, 1923. 8°. Woodcut illustrations by Randolph Schwabe, printed in yellow and grey on title. Original vellum-backed boards, plain dust-wrapper. LIMITED TO 390 COPIES, THIS NO. 38 OF 80 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ARTIST AND PUBLISHER.
With 27 other books by the Beaumont Press, including Angelo Constantini's The Life of Scaramouch (London, 1924. NO. 12 OF 80 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND TRANSLATOR), Cyril W. Beaumont's The First Score (London, 1927, NO. 8 OF 80 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER, also PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the publisher to Alberto de Lacerda on endpaper), Arthur Symons' Parisian Nights (London, 1926, NO. 40 OF 80 COPIES, SIGNED THE AUTHOR, EDITOR, AND PUBLISHER), Walter de la Mare's Crossings (London, 1921, NO. 65 OF 56 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ARTIST AND COMPOSER), Carlo Goldoni's The Good-Humoured Ladies. A Comedy (London, 1922, NO. 36 OF 75 COPIES, SIGNED BY ARTHUR SYMONS AND THE ILLUSTRATOR, INSCRIBED TO MRS A. GRANVILLE SOAMES BY MARIA THERESA PRINCESS DROUTZKOY AND ALEXIS, PRINCE DROUTZKOY), Wyndham Payne's Town & Country (London, [n.d.], .NO. 40 OF 60 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER), and 2 autograph letters signed by Cyril Beaumont. (32)
SYMONS, Arthur. The Café Royal and Other Essays. London: Beaumont Press, 1923. 8°. Woodcut illustrations by Randolph Schwabe, printed in yellow and grey on title. Original vellum-backed boards, plain dust-wrapper. LIMITED TO 390 COPIES, THIS NO. 38 OF 80 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ARTIST AND PUBLISHER.
With 27 other books by the Beaumont Press, including Angelo Constantini's The Life of Scaramouch (London, 1924. NO. 12 OF 80 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND TRANSLATOR), Cyril W. Beaumont's The First Score (London, 1927, NO. 8 OF 80 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER, also PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the publisher to Alberto de Lacerda on endpaper), Arthur Symons' Parisian Nights (London, 1926, NO. 40 OF 80 COPIES, SIGNED THE AUTHOR, EDITOR, AND PUBLISHER), Walter de la Mare's Crossings (London, 1921, NO. 65 OF 56 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ARTIST AND COMPOSER), Carlo Goldoni's The Good-Humoured Ladies. A Comedy (London, 1922, NO. 36 OF 75 COPIES, SIGNED BY ARTHUR SYMONS AND THE ILLUSTRATOR, INSCRIBED TO MRS A. GRANVILLE SOAMES BY MARIA THERESA PRINCESS DROUTZKOY AND ALEXIS, PRINCE DROUTZKOY), Wyndham Payne's Town & Country (London, [n.d.], .NO. 40 OF 60 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER), and 2 autograph letters signed by Cyril Beaumont. (32)
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