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A Letter to Smithers (1963)

 

Title: A Letter to Smithers

Aubrey Beardsley (Author of letters), Patricio Gannon (Foreword)

(Book) Edition of 55 copies. 11 pages. ~26.0 cm (height).

Publication: 1963 [Edinburgh]. The Tragara Press

Typeface: Stephenson Blake Perpetua

Keywords: Letters, 1890s

The letter was written "on September the 18th 1897, four days after Beardsley's return to Paris from Dieppe". In his foreword, Patricio Gannon explains how it came to his possession.

The front cover is decorated with a design by Beardsley.

Edition variants

55 numbered copies.

Printed on cream Saunders paper, and sewn in cream Basingwerk wrappers, lettered on the front.

Standard edition, cover
Standard edition, title page
Standard edition, colophon page

Copies:

University of Delaware Library (#3).
The British Library (#17).
National Library of Scotland (#51).
University of Oxford.
University of Cambridge.

Halliwell ref.: A9

Section

The Tragara Press, 1954-1991

References

Lawrence Durrell, A Persian Lady (1963) »


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