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London: Elkin Mathews, 1892. First Edition. First Edition. 12mo. 94pp. publisher's smooth light tan cloth with Rhymers' Club paper label on spine. A special presentation copy from Eugene Field to his friend Irving Way, author, literary agent and book publisher in Chicago who formed the fine press house of Way and WiIliams, inspired by William Morris and the Kelmscott Press, with a superb inscription in Fieldís lovely miniscule hand ( a quotable poem in itself) and with Eugene Fieldís bookplate. On front free endpaper: "To W. I. Way, Esqr., A poet who will not poetize, from Eugene Field, A rhymer who rhymes. Chicago, April 5th, 1893." Chipping to paper label, very slight wear to extr. of spine, near fine. Contributors include (but not limited to): W.B. Yeats, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, and Arthur Symons. The first and rarest of the Rhymers' anthologies. 350 copies for sale.

London: Published by R. Noble, for R. Edwards, 1797. First Edition. First Edition. Folio size, 11 x 13 inches. Half red morocco, by RiviËre, spine gilt in compartments with six raised bands. Young's masterpiece of this ambitious work, with both the rare explanation leaf and the exceedingly rare 1874 prospectus by James Bain soliciting subscriptions for a projected set of reproductions of the original watercolors (never issued). 43 monumental illustrations by Blake, being four part-titles, and 39 stunning full-page illustrations by William Blake after his own designs around letterpress text in his inimitable flowing, symbolic style. Blake had been commissioned by Edwards to illustrate Young's popular work, and produced 537 watercolors. As a trial these first four sections or "Nights" were published with 43 engravings by Blake; but the book presumably did not sell well, and no further engravings were made. The letterpress 'Explanation' leaf is tipped into the blank leaf following title (usually… Read More