Bookseller’s small stamp to preliminary, some finger soiling to pages; cloth spine darkened, some light soiling and rubbing.
Title-page/cover design and key monogram, almost certainly by Aubrey Beardsley.
£225
London & Boston, John Lane; Roberts Bros, 1895.
First edition. 8vo. Original pale green cloth decorated in gilt.
One of the famous Keynotes series published by Lane, featuring designs presumed to be by Aubrey Beardsley. Tales of the pursuit of interracial marriage by white civil servants and the barriers they faced, and similar, by an Australian author. Uncommon.
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