1890s.

illustrators including Aubrey Beardsley, Will Bradley (e.g. R.D. Blackmore's Fringilla, 1895, first American edition, one of 600 copies; Stephen Crane's War is Kind, 1899; Bradley his Book, 1896, 4 issues), John D. Batten (e.g. Celtic Fairy Tales, 1892, one of 125 copies on vellum; Indian Fairy Tales, 1892, one of 160 on vellum), Maxfield Parrish (Edith Wharton's Italian Villas and their Gardens, 1904), W.B. Macdougall and Paul Woodroffe (Augustine's Confessions, 1900, one of 30 on Japanese vellum); authors including Norman Gale (Orchard Songs, 1893, one of 150 copies), Stanley V. Makower, Ella D'Arcy, Evelyn Sharp, Grant Allen, John Smith, Francis Adams, W.P. James, E. Nesbit (many of these in the 'Keynotes' series published by John Lane/The Bodley Head), F. Anstey, Owen Meredith, W.E. Henley (A Book of Verses, 1897, inscribed presentation copy), J.K. Huysmans, Aubrey de Vere, Richard Garnett, Haldane Macfall (The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer, 1898), William Watson (The Eloping Angels, 1893, one of 75 Japan paper copies, New Poems, 1909, one of 75 also); several volumes from the "Pierrot's Library" series published by John Lane in London and Henry Altermus in Philadelphia; also with issues of The Butterfly, The Pageant, and The Dome (illustrations by William Strang, Edward Gordon Craig and others); many fine copies and many first editions, chiefly original bindings, chiefly 8vo (57)

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