At the Unicorn Press.
MM. RODIN, FANTIN-LATOUR, AND LEGROS.
Three Lithographed Drawings by Will Rothenstein. In a Wrapper. Price £2, 2s. each set.
*⁎* These Portraits were made from sittings given in Paris in 1897. Only fifty copies of each drawing were printed (by Mr. Way), and the stones have been destroyed. Twenty-five sets (each drawing on hand-made Van Guelder paper and signed by the Artist) now remain for sale.
MR. AUBREY BEARDSLEY.
A Lithographed Drawing by Will Rothenstein. Price £1, 1s.
*⁎* No later Portrait than this appears to have been made. After the first few trial proofs only fifty copies were printed, and the stone has been destroyed. The few copies now offered are all numbered and signed Artist’s Proofs.
PIRANESI’S “CARCERI.”
Sixteen Plates, each measuring 21 by 16 inches over all, with an Introduction by E. J. Oldmeadow. Two hundred copies only. Price £2, 2s. net.
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A BOOK OF GIANTS.
Drawn, engraved, and written by William Strang. Fcap. 4to, in a binding designed by the Author. Price 2s. 6d. net.
*⁎* “A Book of Giants” contains twelve original wood engravings, accompanied by humorous verses. Admirers and collectors of Mr. Strang’s etchings will hasten to acquire copies of this, his first published set of woodcuts; but its interest for a wider public, and as a children’s book, should be only a degree less great.
Twenty-five copies, printed from the original blocks, will be hand-coloured by Mr. Strang. Particulars of this edition may be obtained from the Publishers.
A BOOK OF IMAGES.
Drawn by W. T. Horton, and Introduced by W. B. Yeats. Fcap. 8vo, boards. Price 2s. 6d. net.
*⁎* This book contains twenty-four drawings, including a set of Imaginary Landscapes and a number of Mystical Pieces.
VERISIMILITUDES.
A Volume of Stories by Rudolf Dircks. Imperial 16mo, cloth, gilt. 3s. 6d.
The Manchester Courier:—“Mr. Dircks is one of the cleverest writers of the day.... Sure analysis of character, artistic use of incident.... The volume will be highly valued by lovers of short stories.”
The Star:—“Good work. Mr. Dircks has insight and the courage to efface himself; he is uncompromisingly true to his subjects; and he knows to a hair’s-breadth what a short story can and cannot do.... Well worth reprinting in the exquisite form given them by the publishers.”
The Whitehall Review:—“Great and nervous originality.... A masterly observer.... A number of pictures of the emotions, drawn with a fearless truth that is as delightful as it is rare, ... by a genuine artist.”
SHADOWS AND FIREFLIES.
By Louis Barsac. Imp. 16mo, bevelled and extra gilt. Price 3s. 6d. net. Second Edition.
The Outlook:—“Mr. Barsac has a genuine gift of expression and a refined sense of natural beauty.”
“J. D.” in The Star:—“The sonnets attain a particularly high level. The Earth Ship ... is splendidly imagined and splendidly wrought.... In all there is strong evidence of original poetical talent.”
The New Age:—“One of the most promising efforts of the younger muse since the early volumes of Mr. William Watson and Mr. John Davidson.”
THE LITTLE CHRISTIAN YEAR:
A Book of Prayers and Verses. Medium 16mo, parchment, gilt top. Price 2s. 6d. net.
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THE DOME.
A Quarterly. One Hundred pages, Pott 4to, boards. Price 1s. net, or 5s. per annum, post free.
*⁎* Each number of The Dome contains about twenty examples of Music, Architecture, Literature, Drawing, Painting, and Engraving, including several Coloured Plates. Among the Contributors to the first five numbers are—Louis Barsac, Laurence Binyon, Vernon Blackburn, H. W. Brewer, Ingeborg von Bronsart, L. Dougall, Olivier Destrée, Campbell Dodgson, Edward Elgar, Charles Holmes, Laurence Housman, W. T. Horton, Edgardo Levi, Liza Lehmann, Alice Meynell, J. Moorat, W. Nicholson, Charles Pears, Stephen Phillips, Beresford Pite, J. F. Runciman, Byam Shaw, Arthur Symons, Francis Thompson, F. Vielé-Griffin, Gleeson White, J. E. Woodmeald, Paul Woodroffe, and W. B. Yeats.