Ben Jonson His Volpone: Or The Foxe.
DOWSON, Ernest ed. (1898)
£240.00
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A New Edition [edited by Ernest Dowson] "With a critical essay on the author by Vincent O'Sullivan, and a Frontispiece, five initial letters and a cover design illustrative and decorative by Aubrey Beardsley together with an eulogy on the author by Robert Ross." One of 1000 copies of a total edition of 1100. 4to., original blue cloth decorated in gilt with an allover design by Beardsley. London: Leonard Smithers and Co.,
An out of series copy of the second issue, "THE BODLEY HEAD" at foot of spine. Lasner, 129, notes that copies of the ordinary and special issues appear with the Bodley Head spine marking, constituting “American sub-issues." Minor edgewear but a very good copy with an early ownership inscription that combiness assertion and illegibility - presumably in a successful attempt to cover up its provenance a later owner has over-pasted a generic nameless bookplate over an existing one.
Stock Code: 236883
