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Harland, Henry; [Beardsley, Aubrey (illus.)].
Grey Roses.
Publisher: John Lane, London and New York;
Date of Publication: 1901
Stock Code: 15517
Second edition, after the first of 1895. Octavo, pp., [vi], 253, [1] blank, [2] of publisher’s advertisements. Publisher’s original brown cloth; titled in gilt to spine; titles stamped in light brown within ornamental frame designed by Aubrey Beardsley to upper board; white end-papers. Cockling to cloth; corners a touch rubbed; spine slightly sunned and gilt dulled, small area of soiling to lower board. A few spots to fore-edge but otherwise internally clean. A square copy. Book X in John Lane’s ‘keynote’ series, which promoted avant-garde, Decadent, and controversial literature. This volume is a collection of short stories by American Aestheticist Henry Harland (1861-1905), who enjoyed little popularity in his lifetime but was praised posthumously by Henry James. £45.00