The Butterfly. No. 1. March, 1899.
Author:
Maurice Grieffenhagen, Arthur Morrison, Adrian Ross, Walter Emanuel, Robert Bell, A. H. Wimperis, Max Beerbohm, Alfred Slade, S. H. Sime, Joseph Pennell, Edgar Wilson, L. Raven Hill, Beatrice Chambers
Publication details:
London: Grant Richards, 9, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C., for The Butterfly Press. 1899.
£120.00
SKU: 6603
8vo, iv + 38 + [ii] pp. Strangely paginated, the leaves in fact numbering 28. Advertisements front and rear. Bifolium advertisement for the 'World Wide Atlas' tipped in at end. In original printed wraps with strikingly-modern illustration by Edgar Wilson on front, and full-page advertisement for Carl Hentschel & Co, photo-engravers on back, featuring an attractive Arts and Crafts design. Internally clean, but with the leaves loosening, in wraps discoloured with age and chipped at spine (but with the text and illustration clear and entire). The full list of named contributors is Maurice Grieffenhagen, H. D. Lowry, Arthur Morrison, Adrian Ross, Walter Emanuel, J. W. T. Manuel, Robert Bell, A. H. Wimperis, Max Beerbohm, Alfred Slade, S. H. Sime, K. H., Joseph Pennell, Edgar Wilson, L. Raven Hill and Beatrice Chambers. A splendidly characteristic and well-illustrated production of the period. Beerbohm contributes a caricature of the Duke of York.