first edition Softcover
1896 · London
by TRAILL, H.D. (Aubrey Beardsley)
London: John Lane, 1896. Softcover. Very Good. First edition, variant with design printed in green (one of two; no priority). Original brown wrappers printed in green. Bookplate on inside front cover, spine a bit darkeend, else very good or better. Front cover and title page design and key monogram by Aubrey Beardsley, lampooning his own designs for Grant Allen's Keynotes Series novel *The British Barbarians: A Hill-Top Novel*, of which this is a parody. Scarce. *MSL 98.*. (Inventory #: 463705)