"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
Max's Nineties: Drawings 1892-1899.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958. [Caricatures] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.10. With 46 black and white sketches by Beerbohm on 23 double-sided plates, including 35 not previously published. Publisher's burgundy quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and stripy red and white paper-covered boards. Black endpapers; top edge red. With the plain dust-jacket titled in red, and priced at 30s. Small typographic bookplate of Ronald and Joan McNicoll to front pastedown. Gilt dulled to spine. Jacket a little toned to spine, with a few small chips and closed tears to edges. Near fine. Item #58611
Price: £35.00
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