Verses

by Ernest Dowson

$1,250 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. Decadent Poetry LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo 20 x 15cm , pp.xii; 57 3 . One of just 300 copies thus, printed on hand-made paper by the Chiswick Press. Publisher's cream vegetable parchment, with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to boards. All edges untrimmed. Internally crisp and clean. Binding shows moderate general wear and toning, with heavier browning and some bumping to spine. Very good. Dowson's first poetry

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.