EVELYN SHARP. Aubrey Beardsley. — At the Relton Arms. A novel.

Roberts Bros., Boston and John Lane, London, 'The Keynote Series',, 1st Edition, 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 gold-stamped to the base of the backstrip. 8vo. 225pp. Reddy-brown 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. Unprinted tissue title page protector. Free endpapers fractionally toned and spotted, and with a hint of wear to the backstrip ends. A very good copy of the first novel by the noted suffragist (the sister of folk scholar Cecil Sharp). No dust wrapper called-for. Number thirteen 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)., Very Good