RYAN, W.P.

Literary London.

Its Lights & Comedies.

Stock Code 104678

London, Leonard Smithers, 1898

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This book was initially withdrawn due to a threatened libel action to be brought against Smithers by Marie Corelli, one of the subjects of the book. Scarce.

First edition, first issue, with Smithers' imprint uncancelled; 8vo; Beardsley's Puck on Pegasus title-page device, browning to free endpapers, bookplates to front pastedown; publisher's dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine with 'Leonard Smithers 1898' to foot, a little rubbed at extremities, uncut.

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Provenance

Dudley Carew (bookplate), journalist, poet & writer; W.G. Good (Beardsley bookplate), collector of the works of Aubrey Beardsley and other 1890s works.

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