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ANNIE SOPHIE CORY (writing as 'Victoria Crosse'). Aubrey Beardsley : A Woman Who Did Not. A novel

Roberts Bros., Boston and John Lane, London, 'The Keynote Series',, 1895

The American issue of the first edition, printed by John Wilson & Sons at the University Press, Cambridge MA, and with the Roberts Bros. imprint foremost on the title page and advertisement leaves, and gold-stamped to the base of the backstrip. 8vo. 160pp + [x] + xviii + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine, with a dark blue-stamped design by Aubrey Beardsley to the upper board (repeated on the title page) and a small motif to the rear board. Unprinted tissue title page protector. The cloth at the backstrip lightly toned, with just a touch of marking and discolouration to the cloth elsewhere. A little light spotting and soiling to the rear endpaper and pastedown. A very good copy of the author's most uncommon first book, written in response to Grant Allen's 'The Woman Who Did' (issued as number eight in the same Keynotes Series). It was originally titled 'Consummation' but was renamed by the publisher to cash in on the success of Allen's effort. No dust wrapper called-for. Number eighteen of The Keynote Series, for which Aubrey Beardsley designed handsome cloth and title page decorations unique to each volume (in total Beardsley produced designs for 22 of the 36 volumes, before being fired by the publisher following the Oscar Wilde trail; the artwork for the remaining volumes was created by Patten Wilson).. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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