The masque of shadows and other poems

London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1870. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [8], 222-[225]; original decorative red-stamped black cloth, gilt-titled spine, the spine ends and forecorners worn and fraying, covers somewhat rubbed, the hinges cracking but firm, scattered light foxing, primarily to prelims and terminals, generally good and sound. This copy inscribed by the author to German painter/translator "Rudolf Blind with kind regards, John Payne." A poet of Pre-Raphaelite sensibilities, Payne (1842-1916) also translated works by the medieval French poet François Villon and The Arabian Nights into English. The Masque of Shadows includes his "The Romaunt of (truncated) Sir Floris. (Inventory #: 20845)