A Child of the Age. A novel.

FRANCIS ADAMS. Aubrey Beardsley.

Published by Roberts Bros., Boston and John Lane, London, 'The Keynote Series',, 1894

About this Item

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. 282pp + [vi] publisher's advertisements. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine, with a black-stamped design by Aubrey Beardsley to the upper board (repeated on the title page) and a small motif to the rear board. With an unprinted tissue title page protector and patterned endpapers. Top- and fore edge very lightly spotted, and with a little bruising to the backstrip ends. A very good copy of the author's posthumously published final novel, a reworking of his earlier autobiographical novel 'Leicester: An Autobiography' (1885). No dust wrapper called-for. Number four 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). Seller Inventory # ARC93674

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Child of the Age. A novel.

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

Publication Date: 1894

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition