The Second Book of the Rhymers' Club.

£275 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

The second, and final, anthology of Rhymers' Club poetry, the first published two years before. The Club was founded by W.B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys in 1890, and largely revolved around drinking, smoking and dining, either in Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub or the 'Domino Room' in the Café Royale, but sometimes also included sessions at private homes, at which Oscar Wilde was an occasional participant. Members at the time of this publication included John Gray, Ernest Dowson, Richard le Gallienne, Victor Plarr and Arthur Symons. First edition, one of 650 copies; 8vo; 15pp. advertisements dated May 1894, some marginal toning; publisher's brown buckram lettered in gilt to spine, partly uncut.

• Binding: Hardcover

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