The Pageant
Henry and Co., 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #666516
A nice copy of this fin-de-siècle art and literary journal, this is the second and last issue done, 1897. Cover and endpaper design by Paul Woodroffe. From the library of W. MacDonald MacKay a noted Scottish historian and Toronto book collector with his bookplate to the front pastedown, and the bookplate of Horace H. Maeers to the rear pastedown. 8 x 10 in. 266pp. + [8] pages of publishers publications. Original publishers illustrated brown cloth, with design and titles stamped in dark brown. All edges red. Light dust soiling to the cloth, else a Very Good copy. Texts featured include: A Postscript To Retaliation, by Austin Dobson; The Pictures Of Gustave Moreau, by Gleeson White; July, by Michael Field; Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly, by Edmund Gosse; Miss Peele's Apotheosis: A Study In Extra-Suburban Amenities, by Victor Plarr; The Song Of Songs, by Rosamund Marriott Watson; Blind Love, by Laurence Housman; On The South Coast Of Cornwall, by John Gray; The Gods Gave My Donkey Wings, by Angus Evan Abbott; Twenty-Four Quatrains From Omar, by F. York Powell; Light, by John Gray; Giulio. Campagnola, by D. S. Maccoll; Yai And The Moon, by Max Beerbohm; To An Early Spring Day, by J. Sturge Moore; The Seven Princesses, by Maurice Maeterlinck (Translated By Alfred Sutro); Renewal, by Michael Field; Virago, by W. Delaplaine Scull; Ancilla Domini, by Selwyn Image; Of Purple Jars, by Edward Purcell; The Laggard Knight, by R. Garnett; Queen Ysabeau, by Count Villiers De Lisle-Adam (Translated By A. Teixeira De Mattos); On A Breton Cemetery, by Ernest Dowson; The Lilies Of France, by Lionel Johnson; and A Note On Original Wood-Engraving (Illustrated), by Charles Ricketts // and illustrations (all accounted for) include: Hercules And The Hydra / The Apparition / The Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau; The Ancient Mariner, From Pen Drawing, by Reginald Savage; La Pia / Hamlet And Ophelia, From A Pen Drawing, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; A Study In Sanguine And White / A Wounded Amazon, by Charles Hazelwood Shannon; Perseus And The Sea-Maidens / The Call Of Perseus, by Sir Edward Burne- Jones; The Invisible Princess, From A Pen Drawing, by Laurence Housman; The Captive Stag / The Woman Of Samaria / The Flute-Player, From An Engraving, by Giulo Campagnola; Young Girls By The Sea / Young Girls And Death, by P. Puvis De Chavannes; Le Premier Bal, From A Water-Colour, by Charles Condor; The Death Of Abel / The Genius Of Greek Poetry, by George Frederick Watts; J. K. Huysmans, by Will Rothenstein; The Fairy Ship, by Walter Crane; The Bathers, by William Strang; The Autumn Muse, by Charles Ricketts; and The Queen Of The Fishes, A Woodcut In Five Blocks, by Lucien Pissarro.
Price: $125.00