Lot 10
Beardsley (Aubrey) A Book of Fifty Drawings, André Raffalovich's copy, original pictorial red cloth, gilt, Leonard Smithers, 1897.
Hammer Price: £850
Description
Beardsley (Aubrey) A Book of Fifty Drawings, with an Iconography by Aymer Vallance, [one of 500 copies], plates, captioned guards, André Raffalovich's copy with his bookplate by Austin Osman Spare and small ink stamp of Dominican Fathers Edinburgh, original pictorial red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., a little soiled, spine rubbed and faded, Leonard Smithers, 1897 § Lacassagne (Prof. Alexandre) La Verte Vieillesse, signed presentation copy from the author to André Raffalovich inscribed on half-title, original wrappers, uncut, glacine wrapper, a little rubbed and frayed at edges, Lyons, 1921, 4to & 8vo (2)
⁂ Marc-André Raffalovich (1864-1934), French poet and writer on homosexuality, and life-long partner of the poet John Gray. Under Gray's influence he became a Catholic and joined the order of Dominicans in Edinburgh, where Gray had become a priest.
Alexandre Lacassagne (1843-1924) was a French physician and criminologist.
Description
Beardsley (Aubrey) A Book of Fifty Drawings, with an Iconography by Aymer Vallance, [one of 500 copies], plates, captioned guards, André Raffalovich's copy with his bookplate by Austin Osman Spare and small ink stamp of Dominican Fathers Edinburgh, original pictorial red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., a little soiled, spine rubbed and faded, Leonard Smithers, 1897 § Lacassagne (Prof. Alexandre) La Verte Vieillesse, signed presentation copy from the author to André Raffalovich inscribed on half-title, original wrappers, uncut, glacine wrapper, a little rubbed and frayed at edges, Lyons, 1921, 4to & 8vo (2)
⁂ Marc-André Raffalovich (1864-1934), French poet and writer on homosexuality, and life-long partner of the poet John Gray. Under Gray's influence he became a Catholic and joined the order of Dominicans in Edinburgh, where Gray had become a priest.
Alexandre Lacassagne (1843-1924) was a French physician and criminologist.