GRAY, John (1866-1934)

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ID 1362937
Лот 115 | GRAY, John (1866-1934)
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£ 5 000 – 8 000
GRAY, John (1866-1934)
Silverpoints. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893.
The de luxe edition bound in full publisher's vellum: one of 25 copies on Spalding laid paper. The edition was limited to 275 copies; ordinary copies were bound in green cloth with matching decoration. The elegant binding represents water and willow leaves, and the whole work was inspired by Aldine Italic books. Silverpoints, consisting of sixteen original poems and thirteen translations from Verlaine, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, and Baudelaire was the first book by the poet and translator John Gray and one of the most significant literary works of the Aesthetic Movement. Gray was a protegé of Oscar Wilde, who might have paid the publishing costs of the book. Gray was rumoured to have been the model for Dorian Gray, although the two met a year after Wilde's work was published. However, Gray was henceforth associated with the role and signed himself 'Dorian' in letters to Wilde. There were 25 numbered copies of the deluxe edition issued, and a few copies without the limitation notice, as here.

12mo (210 x 105mm). Two decorative woodcut initials by Charles Ricketts. Publisher's vellum gilt with an all-over design of water and willow leaves, title at upper inner corner, designed by Charles Ricketts, with his initials in lower inner corner; vellum-backed folding case by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Provenance: Barry Humphries (1934-2023; bookplate).
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