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448 CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF BOOKSELLING Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers 46, Great Russell Street Telephone: 020 7631 4220 (opp. British Museum) Fax: 020 7631 1882 Bloomsbury, Email: [email protected] London www.jarndyce.co.uk WC1B 3PA VAT.No.: GB 524 0890 57 CATALOGUE CCXXXVII SUMMER 2019 TURN OF THE CENTURY Catalogue: Jessica Starr. Production: Carol Murphy & Ed Lake. All items are London-published and in at least good condition, unless otherwise stated. Prices are nett. Items marked with a dagger (†) incur VAT (20%) to customers within the EU. A charge for postage and insurance will be added to the invoice total. We accept payment by VISA or MASTERCARD. If payment is made by US cheque, a fee will be added towards the costs of conversion. High resolution images are available for all items, on request; please email: [email protected]. 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TURN OF THE CENTURY ISBN: 978 1 910156-29-2 Price £10.00 Covers: adapted from item 374 Brian Lake Janet Nassau INTRODUCTION The turn of the nineteenth century into the twentieth was a time of great change, with staid Victorian ideals challenged by new artistic, social, and moral concerns. Though Pre-Raphaelitism had been at its peak earlier in the nineteenth century, the movement gained popularity with many artists and writers adopting the belief in ‘art for art’s sake’, shunning the traditional Victorian tenet that literature and visual art must have a moral core. English artistic and literary circles were also influenced by the emerging Decadent and Aesthetic movements in Paris, which encouraged sensuality and political, sexual, and artistic experimentation. Figures like Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley – and their particularly flamboyant and controversial styles - have become synonymous with the British fin de siècle, but the range of work being produced during the period was varied. Along with decadence and aestheticism, the genres of horror, science fiction, and feminism (or new women) began to take shape, thanks in part to John Lane’s Keynotes Series. Besides the iconic high art journals The Savoy and The Yellow Book, periodicals like The Idler, The Strand, Pearson’s Magazine and many others catered to a wider audience, publishing adventure stories by authors including Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. As Beardsley radicalised and modernised the art world with his dramatic, grotesque, and erotic pen-and-ink line drawings, William Morris took inspiration from mediaeval manuscripts and tapestries to produce books and textiles that paid homage to the highest forms of craftsmanship. This catalogue aims to present a microcosm of the ‘Turn of the Century’ and includes the many genres of literature and art, as well as some of their earlier influences and later followers, that developed and flourished during this period. Jessica Starr ADDERLEY 1. ADDERLEY, James. Stephen Remarx. The story of a venture in ethics. 3rd edn. Edward Arnold. Half title, 2pp ads. Orig. maroon boards, imitating leather, blocked & lettered in gilt; spine & inner hinges faded & a little rubbed. Paper strip with ‘R.C. Lambeth, Esq’ pasted on leading pastedown. t.e.g. ¶ James Adderley, 1861-1942, Christian Socialist and an original member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. He worked as an ‘evangelical Catholic’ in the poor parishes of London, particularly the Oxford House Settlement in Bethnal Green, and this is reflected inStephen Remarx - a novel rejected by 20 publishers, but which reached a 12th edition in 1904. 1893 £45 POPULAR SCIENCE ESSAYS 2. ALLEN, Grant. Falling in Love. With other essays on more exact branches of science. FIRST EDITION. Smith, Elder, & Co. Half title, 4pp ads. Entirely unopened in orig. red- brown pebble grained cloth, ruled in black, spine lettered in gilt; front upper corner of front board sl. bumped, else a fine copy. ¶ Prior to the immense success of his John Lane published Keynote novel The Woman Who Did (1895), Allen was a science writer and staunch supporter of Darwin’s theory of Evolution. In this volume of essays, Allen tries his hand at popular science, writing in his preface: ‘Some people complain that science is dry. That is, of course, a matter of taste. For my own part, I like my science and my champagne as dry as I can get them. But the public thinks otherwise. So I have ventured to sweeten accompanying samples as far as possible to suit the demand, and trust they will meet with the approbation of consumers’. 1889 £75 IRISH SONGS: INSCRIBED BY HELEN ALLINGHAM 3. ALLINGHAM, William. Irish Songs and Poems. 3rd edn. Longmans, Green, & Co. Half title, 1p. ads., front. Uncut in orig. blue glazed-cloth boards with imitation parchment spine, lettered in gilt; spine soiled & darkened, extremities sl. rubbed. Ink inscription on leading f.e.p. ‘Mr & Mrs. Cowlishaw, from H. Allingham, Dec. 1903’. ¶ First published in 1887. William Allingham, 1824-1889, Irish editor and poet, best known for his Diary, which was published after his death. This collection of poems and songs includes An Irishman to the Nightingales, The Western Wind, The Fairies, The Lepracaun, and others. This copy is inscribed by Allingham’s widow, Helen Allingham, the illustrator and watercolourist. 1901 £110 4. ALLINGHAM, William. Sixteen Poems. Selected by William Butler Yeats. (Reprinted 1971 by photo-lithography in the Republic of Ireland for the Irish University Press.) Dundrum: The Dun Emer Press. (Irish University Press: Shannan T.M. MacGlinchey.) Colophon printed in red. Orig. blue drab boards, lettered in blue, cream cloth spine. In orig. glassine wrapper, d.w. spine lettered in black. Biro inscription on leading f.e.p.: Sheila M. Tonge’. v.g. ¶ This collection includes the poems Let me Sing of What I Know, A Dream, The Fairies, The Maids of Elfin Mere, Twilight Voices, The Lover and the Birds, and others. 1905 [1971] £45 THE MAY BOOK 5. ARIA, Mrs. (Eliza Davis) The May Book. Compiled by Mrs. Aria. In aid of Charing Cross Hospital. 4to. Macmillan & Co. Half title, front., plates & illus., 16pp ads. Orig. light green cloth, blocked & lettered in pink, yellow, & darker green; sl. dulled & rubbed. Ink inscription on leading f.e.p.: ‘Arthur W Pilleau, Nov. 1902’. v.g. ¶ Eliza Davis Aria, 1866-1931, fashion and gossip columnist, society hostess, and Henry Irving’s long-term lover. This volume includes literary and artistic works by George Meredith, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, John Davidson, Robert Hichens, Evelyn Sharpe, Max Beerbohm, Marie Corelli, Edward Burne-Jones, Richard le Gallienne, Sarah Grand, and many others. 1901 £120 ARROW 6. ARROW, Simon, pseud. Count Fanny’s Nuptials: being the story of a courtship. Prince for private circulation. G.G. Hope Johnstone. Half title, 7 plates; the odd spot. Orig. blue cloth, bevelled edges, spine lettered in gilt. In orig. glassine wrapper; d.w. sl. worn & chipped. v.g. ¶ Copac lists only four copies at BL, Oxford, Cambridge, and NLS. The identity of the author is unknown though it is generally accepted that it is by either decadent novelist Ronald Firbank or publisher George Granville Hope Johnstone. The illustrations, which are very much in the style of Aubrey Beardsley, are by German artist ‘Alastair’ (Baron Hans Henning Voigt). [1907] £200 PEDLAR’S PACK 7. BALDWIN, Louisa, Mrs. Alfred. The Pedlar’s Pack. With nine coloured illustrations by Chas. Pears, author and illustrator of Mr. Punch’s Book for Children. W. & R. Chambers. Col. front., illus., plates. Orig. beige cloth, blocked in black. A nice crisp copy. ¶ Louisa Baldwin (nee MacDonald), 1845-1925, is best remembered for her 1895 work The Shadow on the Blind and Other Ghost Stories. She was married to businessman and politician Alfred Baldwin, and their son Stanley Baldwin was Prime Minister in the mid 1930s. Louisa and her sisters, who became known as Pre-Raphaelite beauties - were famous for their high-profile marriages and offspring; her eldest sister Alice married John Kipling and together they had a son called Rudyard, Georgiana was married to Edward Burne-Jones, and Agnes married painter Edward Poynter. This work is dedicated to Agnes. [1904] £70 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY HENRY JAMES 8. BALESTIER, Wolcott. The Average Woman: A common story, Reffey, Captain my Captain; with a biographical sketch by Henry James. FIRST EDITION. William Heinemann. Half title, 8pp cata. (June 1892). Orig. blue cloth, blocked in dark green with peacock design & crosshatching; spine faded to brown, dulled. ¶ Balestier was Kipling’s brother-in-law and collaborator on The Naulahka; he died in 1891 of typhoid fever aged only 30, shortly after impressing American and British literary circles with A Patent Philter and A Victorious Defeat. Wolff did not own this collection of stories (Edel & Laurence B10). 1892 £45 9. BARLOW, Jane. The End of Elfintown. Illustrated by Laurence Housman. FIRST EDITION. Macmillan & Co. Half title, illus. titlepage, illus., plates. Orig. light brown cloth, blocked in gilt with elaborate tentacle design, lettered in gilt; spine sl. faded & watermarked.