Moore (George) Evelyn Innes, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Alice Stuart Wortley dated "Paris, Jan I 1899" to front free endpaper, with extensive corrections and excisions to c.35pp., some in the author's hand, others with revised passages pasted onto page with some resultant creasing or tearing, 2 leaves detached, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, some bumping and fraying to spine tips and corners, rubbed, 8vo, 1898.
⁂ A superb association copy, inscribed to Wortley (1862-1936) daughter of John Everett Millais and best-known now as a correspondent and frequent sounding board of Edward Elgar's. Moore knew Wortley from when the Moore and Millais families were neighbours in London and called on her musical expertise when writing Evelyn Innes, the first of two novels that dealt extensively with the subject. This copy appears to have been used by him to prepare for the second edition and gifted to her by way of thanks for her assistance.
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