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London, John Lane, The Bodley Head - 1913 - 8vo (19 x 13 cms) pp. xxxviii, 166 + 2 publisher’s catalogue. Bound in green buckram with initialed Aubrey Beardsley gilt design to upper board. Gilt titles to spine. Half title present. Title page in red and black. Top edge gilt, pages uncut. Engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue guard.
With a Memoir by Arthur Symons. Four Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Portrait by William Rothenstein.
Ernest Dowson, 1867-1900, poet, novelist, and short-story writer whose work influenced many later authors. He was well-established with the literary set of London in the late 1880s and 1890s, and was a member of the Rhymers' Club along with W.B. Yeats, Lord Alfred Douglas, Arthur Symons, Richard Le Gallienne, and sometimes Oscar Wilde. Elkin Mathews and John Lane published the Club's first collections of poetry - including work by Dowson - in 1892 and 1894. After a series of family tragedies in the mid-1890s, his health began to rapidly decline, and he died at the age of 32. His poem Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae provided Margaret Mitchell with the famous title of her most popular work Gone with the Wind.
Condition: Good with tight binding, endpapers and page edges having some staining. No inscriptions. 67454955
