John Oliver ( pseud., i.e. Pearl Mary Teresa RICHARDS). The Dream and the Business

by HOBBES

£100 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

HOBBES, John Oliver ( pseud., i.e. Pearl Mary Teresa RICHARDS). The Dream and the Business London: T. Fisher Unwin . 1906. 8vo. Publisher’s blue and white cloth, design by Beardsley blocked to upper board in yellow and orange, spine lettered in red; pp. vii, [1 (blank)], 444, [2 (advertisements)], with half-title; without the very rare dust-jacket, boards slightly rubbed, spine toned with pushing to ends; light spotting to half-title and browning to endpapers; a very good copy; contemporary booklabel of the Ardkinglas estate to front pastedown. First edition of the last published work by anglo-American author Pearl Richards (1867–1906), with a cover design by Aubrey Beardsley reproducing his poster design for T. Fisher Unwin’s Pseudonym and Autonym Libraries. T. Fisher Unwin had published Richards’s first book, the very popular Some Emotions and a Moral , in 1891 as part of the Pseudonym Library. Samuels Lasner 76c . SKU: 2126081

• Binding: Hardcover

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