Here are Ladies. Presentation Copy (1913)
Book ID: 69227
Price: €450.00
Here are Ladies. London: Macmillan, 1913. First Edition. Pp, 349. Green cloth boards, title in gilt to upper cover & spine, in publisher’s dust jacket. Jacket in poor condition, the book is a fine bright copy. Housed in a chemise and quarter morocco cloth slipcase.
Presentation copy, Inscribed by the Author to the artist Theodore Spicer-Simson. With a copy of his engraved medallion of Stephens pasted to front endpaper, Signed underneath by the Artist.
Theodore Spicer-Simson (1871-1959) was a sculptor and medalist; many world and literary figures of the first half of the twentieth century are among his subjects.
In 1921 he started work on Men of Letters of the British Isles a volume containing medallic portraits of writers such as James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, James Stephens, A.E. Houseman, G.K. Chesterton among others.
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