Publisher: | London.: John Baillie's / The Pear Tree Press. | Edition: | First Edition; Published Date: [1904] | Illustrations: | Woodcuts by Charles Hazelwood Shannon, Reginald Savage, Charles S Ricketts, T Surge Moore, Lucien Pissarro, Bernard Sleigh, E Gordon Craig, Louise Glazier, Elinor Monsell, Paul Woodroffe, Sydney Lee, and Laurence Housman. | Dimensions: | 270 x 200 mm (11 x 8 inches) - viii, 249pp. | Appearance: | Quarter-cloth spine on illustrated grey papered boards. | Condition: | G: in good condition without dust jacket. Soiling and chipping to boards and spine. Edge-wear. Browning to eps. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Occasional inner hinge cracking. Sporadic light foxing and marking. |
The first of only two issues of this annual to be printed. Bookplate of Compton Mackenzie to front paste-down and his stamp to fep verso.
List of content: 'Beauty's Mirror' by John Masefield, 'The Philosophy of Islands' by G K Chesterton, 'The Market Girl' by Thomas Hardy, 'Open Sesame' by Charles Marriott, 'To Any Householder' by Mrs Meynell [Alice Meynell], 'The Oracles' by A E Housman, 'The Genius of Pope' by Stephen Gwynn, 'Poor Little Mrs Villiers' by Netta Syrett, 'Blindness' by John Masefield, 'The Merchant Knight' by Richard Garnett, 'Earth's Martyrs' by Stephen Phillips, 'The Gem and Its Setting' by Violet Hunt, 'Marriage in Two Moods' by Francis Thompson, 'An Indian Road-Tale' by S Boulderson, 'Madame de Warens' by Havelock Ellis, 'The Clue' by Laurence Binyon, 'Richard Farquharson' by May Bateman, 'Jill's Cat' by E F Benson, 'Proverbial Romances' by Laurence Housman, 'Marriages are Made in Heaven' by W Somerset Maugham, 'A Phial' by John Gray, and 'A Concert at Clifford's Inn' by John Todhunter.
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