miss e m a savage (3 risultati)

380pp, index, sonnets, preface, portrait photographs : letters outlining their thoughts on literature and art and their burgeoning relationship; hardback, almost vg.

1st edition. 8vo. 380pp. B/w. portrait frontispiece. Occasional slight foxing. Slightly soiled original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. US$12.

Hardback. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. None (illustratore). First edition. The uncommon first edition of this collection of Samuel Butler and Miss E. M. A. Savage's letters in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work.With the original unclipped dust wrapper.Uncommon.Includes two monochrome plates: a frontispiece sketch of Samuel Butler dated 1878 facing pp. 5, and a photograph portrait of Miss Savage facing pp. 17, both of which appeared in Festing Jones's Memoir (1919). Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic best known for his novels The Way of All Flesh (1903) and Erewhon (1872). Miss E. M. A. Savage cultivated an important correspondence with Butler and was the subject of his three 'Sonnets on Miss Savage', which can be found at the rear of this work. This collection of their letters was published on the centenary of Butler's death. In the original publisher's binding with original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart with excellent colour to cloth and bright gilt titles. Dust wrapper generally clean with slight browning and the odd mark, including a minor stain beneath front title. With archival reinforcements to flyleaves and to head and tail of jacket's spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages and marginal spotting limited to fore edge. Near Fine. book.