Lot 95
Wratislaw (Theodore) The Pity of Love. A Tragedy, one of five copies on Japanese vellum, Swan Sonnenschein, 1895
Hammer Price: £2,400
Description
Wratislaw (Theodore) The Pity of Love. A Tragedy, one of five copies on Japanese vellum, light erasure marks to front free endpaper, original cloth, slight bumping and fraying to spine tips and corners, upper joint splitting at ends but firm, light marking to head of upper cover, preserved in custom half morocco drop-front box, 8vo, Swan Sonnenschein, 1895.
⁂ Exceptionally rare, we can trace no other copy of this limitation at auction.
Wratislaw is one of the most elusive figures of the 1890s, both in his little-documented private life and in his works as most appeared to be published in small limited editions, as here.
Description
Wratislaw (Theodore) The Pity of Love. A Tragedy, one of five copies on Japanese vellum, light erasure marks to front free endpaper, original cloth, slight bumping and fraying to spine tips and corners, upper joint splitting at ends but firm, light marking to head of upper cover, preserved in custom half morocco drop-front box, 8vo, Swan Sonnenschein, 1895.
⁂ Exceptionally rare, we can trace no other copy of this limitation at auction.
Wratislaw is one of the most elusive figures of the 1890s, both in his little-documented private life and in his works as most appeared to be published in small limited editions, as here.
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