The Venture. An Annual of Art and Literature.

£270 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

An effortlessly eloquent periodical with a starry list of contributors, an astonishingly high proportion of whom have made the cut of longevity. Writers include the editors, John Gray, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, Alice Meynell, Laurence Binyon, John Masefield, Netta Syrett, Francis Thompson, Havelock Ellis, E.F. Benson and Violet Hunt, and artists include Housman, Shannon, Ricketts, Sturge Moore, Paul Woodroffe, Lucien Pissarro and Edward Gordon Craig. Slightly shaken, corners bruised, but covers clean: a respectable and usable copy. Printed by James Guthrie at the Pear Tree Press.

• Year: 1903

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