Max Beerbohm — The Poets&Apos; Corner

London, William Heinemann, 1904 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of Max Beerbohm's humorously illustrated collection of satirical caricatures of famed poets. A first edition.Illustrated with twenty colour lithograph plates by Beerbohm. Extra-illustrated with loosely inserted duplicates of the Wordsworth and Verlaine plates.Collated, complete.A charming collection of satirical illustrations of poets both living and dead, including Omar Khayyam, Robert Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Rudyard Kipling. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth covered boards. Lacking back strip. Spotting to tail and fore edge of front board. Hinges lightly strained but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Plates clean and bright. Edgewear and instances of chipping to perimeters of two loosely inserted duplicate plates. Good Only . Ill.: Max Beerbohm. Good Only .