James G. Nelson, Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, Rivendale Press/Penn State Press, 2000, First Edition. Michael McDowell sold15 8 2020 Front endpaper overleaf (signed by

Front endpaper overleaf (signed by unknown)

The design of the front board is by Aubrey Beardsley and was originally used as the frontispiece to the first edition of A Book of Bargains (1896)

'Some books become talismans

some staining to blue cloth top right front corner bruised

John Pelan (ed)

James G. Nelson, Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, Rivendale Press/Penn State Press, 2000, First Edition. Michael McDowell sold15 8 2020 Front endpaper overleaf (signed byJames G. Nelson, Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, Rivendale Press Penn State Press, 2000, First Edition. First Published by Penn State Press. First Published in the UK by Rivendale Press. Appendix (on Smithers and the Erotic Book Trade) by Peter Mendes. Checklist of Smithers's Publications by James G. Nelson and Peter Mendes. Hardback. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Illustrated dust