![[SYMONS, A.J.A., FIRST EDITION CLUB & PRIVATE PRINTING]. – William HAZLITT. A Reply to Z. London: First Edition Club, 1923. Large 8°. Half title, ornaments printed in red. Original red and black cloth gilt, dust-jacket (torn without loss, a few spots). NUMBER 5 OF 300 COPIES. INSCRIBED by A.J.A.Symons on the front free endpaper, “Christmas 1923. For Harold Fisher whose good advice has exercised a perceptible influence on the fortunes of the Club, this book, in all friendship, from A.J.A. Symons.” With 6 other books of related interest, namely Bibliographical Catalogue of First Editions … by Lord Byron ([London], 1925, ONE OF 500 COPIES, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper, “H.F. from A.J.”), Ambrose Bierce’s Ten Tales. With an Introduction by A.J.A. Symons (London, 1925, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper, “For Harold Fisher this outcome of much discussion o](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CSK/2015_CSK_11606_0233_000(symons_aja_first_edition_club_private_printing_william_hazlitt_a_reply121208).jpg?w=1)
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[SYMONS, A.J.A., FIRST EDITION CLUB & PRIVATE PRINTING]. – William HAZLITT. A Reply to Z. London: First Edition Club, 1923. Large 8°. Half title, ornaments printed in red. Original red and black cloth gilt, dust-jacket (torn without loss, a few spots). NUMBER 5 OF 300 COPIES. INSCRIBED by A.J.A.Symons on the front free endpaper, “Christmas 1923. For Harold Fisher whose good advice has exercised a perceptible influence on the fortunes of the Club, this book, in all friendship, from A.J.A. Symons.” With 6 other books of related interest, namely Bibliographical Catalogue of First Editions … by Lord Byron ([London], 1925, ONE OF 500 COPIES, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper, “H.F. from A.J.”), Ambrose Bierce’s Ten Tales. With an Introduction by A.J.A. Symons (London, 1925, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper, “For Harold Fisher this outcome of much discussion on the making of books gratefully A.J.A. Symons [monogram of Harold Fisher]”), Alban Dobson’s A Bibliography of the First Editions … of Austin Dobson (London, 1925, inscribed “for Harold” and with 2 pen-and-ink comic illustrations by A. J. A. Symons on the front endpapers), Lord Alfred Douglas’s Nine Poems. Privately Printed for A.J.A. Symons (London, 1926, NUMBER 27 OF 50 COPIES, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper, “For Harold Fisher cordially from A.J.A. Symons”), John Gray’s Sound ([London], “privately printed for A.J.A. Symons”, NUMBER 19 OF 50 COPIES, INSCRIBED on the limitation leaf, “for Harold to encourage his typographic zeal from AJ.”) and An Anthology of ‘Nineties’ Verse. Compiled and Edited by A.J.A. Symons (London, 1928, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper, “for Harold Fisher with many good wishes from his friend AJ.”), all variously INSCRIBED (as recorded above) by A.J.A. Symons to Harold Fisher.
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