Excursions in Criticism: Some Recreations of a Rhymer.

£90 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Sold out within a week of publication, according to the Pall Mall Gazette (April 8 1893). In 1892, Macmillan wrote Mathews and Lane to say they would be ‘happy to accept proposal that we take some copies of Watson’s Excursions @ 2/6 in exchange for the remaining copies of Walter Crane’s vol. of poems, which we presume you will credit to us at the price paid for them’. As Nelson notes, Macmillan’s inventory suggests that Crane’s book had not done well in America. Nelson EM p. 103 Bottom half of spine missing and corners of boards worn. Text block clean and tight in the binding.

• Binding: Hardcover

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