JOHN LANE

THE BODLEY HEAD
VIGO ST W.
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“BODLEIAN LONDON”

CATALOGUE of PUBLICATIONS in BELLES LETTRES all at net prices

1895.

List of Books
IN
BELLES LETTRES
(Including some Transfers)
Published by John Lane
The Bodley Head
VIGO STREET, LONDON, W.

N.B.—The Authors and Publisher reserve the right of reprinting any book in this list if a new edition is called for, except in cases where a stipulation has been made to the contrary, and of printing a separate edition of any of the books for America irrespective of the numbers to which the English editions are limited. The numbers mentioned do not include copies sent to the public libraries, nor those sent for review.

Most of the books are published simultaneously in England and America, and in many instances the names of the American Publishers are appended.

ADAMS (FRANCIS).

Essays in Modernity. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

[Shortly.

Chicago: Stone & Kimball.

A Child of the Age. (See Keynotes Series.)

ALLEN (GRANT).

The Lower Slopes: A Volume of Verse. With Title-page and Cover Design by J. Illingworth Kay. 600 copies. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

Chicago: Stone & Kimball.

The Woman who Did. (See Keynotes Series.)

The British Barbarians. (See Keynotes Series.)

BAILEY (JOHN C.).

An Anthology of English Elegies.

[In preparation.

BEARDSLEY (AUBREY).

The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser, in which is set forth an exact account of the Manner of State held by Madam Venus, Goddess and Meretrix, under the famous Hörselberg, and containing the adventures of Tannhäuser in that place, his repentance, his journeying to Rome, and return to the loving mountain. By Aubrey Beardsley. With 20 full-page Illustrations, numerous ornaments, and a cover from the same hand. Sq. 16mo. 10s. 6d. net.

[In preparation.

BEDDOES (T. L.).

See Gosse (Edmund).

BEECHING (Rev. H. C.).

In a Garden: Poems. With Title-page designed by Roger Fry. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

New York: Macmillan & Co.

BENSON (ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER).

Lyrics. Fcap. 8vo, buckram. 5s. net.

New York: Macmillan & Co.

BRIDGES (ROBERT).

Suppressed Chapters and other Bookishness. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

BROTHERTON (MARY).

Rosemary for Remembrance. With Title-page and Cover Design by Walter West. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

BUCHAN (JOHN).

Musa Piscatrix.

[In preparation.

CAMPBELL (GERALD).

The Joneses and the Asterisks. (See Mayfair Set.)

CASE (ROBERT).

An Anthology of English Epithalamies.

[In preparation.

CASTLE (Mrs EGERTON).

My Little Lady Anne. (See Pierrot’s Library.)

CASTLE (EGERTON).

See Stevenson (Robert Louis).

CRAIG (R. MANIFOLD).

The Sacrifice of Fools: A Novel. Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d. net.

[In preparation.

CRANE (WALTER).

Toy Books. Re-issue. Each with new Cover Design and end papers. 9d. net.

The group of three bound in one volume, with a decorative cloth cover, end papers, and a newly written and designed preface. 3s. 6d. net.

I. This Little Pig.

II. The Fairy Ship.

III. King Luckieboy’s Party.

Chicago: Stone & Kimball.

CROSSE (VICTORIA).

The Woman who Didn’t. (See Keynotes Series.)

DALMON (C. W.).

Song Favours. With a Title-page designed by J. P. Donne. Sq. 16mo. 3s. 6d. net.

Chicago: Way & Williams.

D’ARCY (ELLA).

Monochromes. (See Keynotes Series.)

DAVIDSON (JOHN).

Plays: An Unhistorical Pastoral; A Romantic Farce; Bruce, a Chronicle Play; Smith, a Tragic Farce; Scaramouch in Naxos, a Pantomime, with a Frontispiece and Cover Design by Aubrey Beardsley. Printed at the Ballantyne Press. 500 copies. Small 4to. 7s. 6d. net.

Chicago: Stone & Kimball.

Fleet Street Eclogues. Fcap. 8vo, buckram. 5s. net.

[Out of Print at present.

A Random Itinerary and a Ballad. With a Frontispiece and Title-page by Laurence Housman. 600 copies. Fcap. 8vo, Irish Linen. 5s. net.

Boston: Copeland & Day.

Ballads and Songs. With a Title-page and Cover Design by Walter West. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo, buckram. 5s. net.

Boston: Copeland & Day.

DAWE (W. CARLTON).

Yellow and White. (See Keynotes Series.)

DE TABLEY (LORD).

Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical. By John Leicester Warren (Lord De Tabley). Illustrations and Cover Design by C. S. Ricketts. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.

New York: Macmillan & Co.

Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical. Second Series, uniform in binding with the former volume. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

New York: Macmillan & Co.

DIX (GERTRUDE).

The Girl from the Farm. (See Keynotes Series.)

DOSTOIEVSKY (F.).

See Keynotes Series, Vol. III.

ECHEGARAY (JOSÉ).

See Lynch (Hannah).

EGERTON (GEORGE).

Keynotes. (See Keynotes Series.)

Discords. (See Keynotes Series.)

Young Ofeg’s Ditties. A translation from the Swedish of Ola Hansson. With Title-page and Cover Design by Aubrey Beardsley. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

Boston: Roberts Bros.

FARR (FLORENCE).

The Dancing Faun. (See Keynotes Series.)

FLEMING (GEORGE).

For Plain Women only. (See Mayfair Set.)

FLETCHER (J. S.).

The Wonderful Wapentake. By ‘A Son of the Soil.’ With 18 full-page Illustrations by J. A. Symington. Crown 8vo. 5s. 6d. net.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.

FREDERIC (HAROLD).

Mrs Albert Grundy. (See Mayfair Set.)

GALE (NORMAN).

Orchard Songs. With Title-page and Cover Design by J. Illingworth Kay. Fcap. 8vo, Irish Linen. 5s. net.

Also a Special Edition limited in number on hand-made paper bound in English vellum. £1, 1s. net.

New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.

GARNETT (RICHARD).

Poems. With Title-page by J. Illingworth Kay. 350 copies. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

Boston: Copeland & Day.

Dante, Petrarch, Camoens, cxxiv Sonnets rendered in English. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

[In preparation.

GEARY (NEVILL).

A Lawyer’s Wife: A Novel. Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d. net.

[In preparation.

GOSSE (EDMUND).

The Letters of Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Now first edited. Pott 8vo. 5s. net.

Also 25 copies large paper. 12s. 6d. net.

New York: Macmillan & Co.

GRAHAME (KENNETH).

Pagan Papers: A Volume of Essays. With Title-page by Aubrey Beardsley. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.

Chicago: Stone & Kimball.

The Golden Age. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

Chicago: Stone & Kimball.

GREENE (G. A.).

Italian Lyrists of To-day. Translations in the original metres from about thirty-five living Italian poets, with bibliographical and biographical notes. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

New York: Macmillan & Co.

GREENWOOD (FREDERICK).

Imagination in Dreams. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

New York: Macmillan & Co.

HAKE (T. GORDON).

A Selection from his Poems. Edited by Mrs Meynell. With a Portrait after D. G. Rossetti, and a Cover Design by Gleeson White. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

Chicago: Stone and Kimball.

HANSSON (LAURA MARHOLM).

Modern Women: Six Psychological Sketches. [Sophia Kovalevsky, George Egerton, Eleanora Duse, Amalie Skram, Marie Bashkirtseff, A. Edgren Leffler.] Translated from the German by Hermione Ramsden. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

[In preparation.

HANSSON (OLA). See Egerton.

HARLAND (HENRY).

Grey Roses. (See Keynotes Series.)

HAYES (ALFRED).

The Vale of Arden and Other Poems. With a Title-page and a Cover designed by E. H. New. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

Also 25 copies large paper. 15s. net.

HEINEMANN (WILLIAM).

The First Step. A Dramatic Moment. Small 4to. 3s. 6d. net.

HOPPER (NORA).

Ballads in Prose. With a Title-page and Cover by Walter West. Sq. 16mo. 5s. net.

Boston: Roberts Bros.

A Volume of Poems. With Title-page designed by Patten Wilson. Sq. 16mo. 5s. net.

[In preparation.

HOUSMAN (CLEMENCE).

The Were Wolf. With six Full-page Illustrations, Title-page and Cover Design, by Laurence Housman. Sq. 16mo. 4s. net.

[In preparation.

HOUSMAN (LAURENCE).

Green Arras: Poems. With Illustrations by the Author. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

[In preparation.

IRVING (LAURENCE).

Godefroi and Yolande: A Play. With three Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Sm. 4to. 5s. net.

[In preparation.

JAMES (W. P.).

Romantic Professions: A Volume of Essays. With Title-page designed by J. Illingworth Kay. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

New York: Macmillan & Co.

JOHNSON (LIONEL).

The Art of Thomas Hardy: Six Essays. With Etched Portrait by Wm. Strang, and Bibliography by John Lane. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 5s. 6d. net.

Also 150 copies, large paper, with proofs of the portrait. £1, 1s. net.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.

JOHNSON (PAULINE).

White Wampum: Poems. With a Title-page and Cover Design by E. H. New. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

Boston: Lamson, Wolffe & Co.

JOHNSTONE (C. E.).

Ballads of Boy and Beak. With a Title-page designed by F. H. Townsend. Sq. 32mo. 2s. 6d. net.

[In preparation.

KEYNOTES SERIES.

Each volume with specially designed Title-page by Aubrey Beardsley. Crown 8vo, cloth. 3s. 6d. net.

Vol. I. Keynotes. By George Egerton.

[Seventh edition now ready.

Vol. II. The Dancing Faun. By Florence Farr.

Vol. III. Poor Folk. Translated from the Russian of F. Dostoievsky by Lena Milman. With a Preface by George Moore.

Vol. IV. A Child of the Age. By Francis Adams.

Vol. V. The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light. By Arthur Machen.

[Second edition now ready.

Vol. VI. Discords. By George Egerton.

[Fourth edition now ready.

Vol. VII. Prince Zaleski. By M. P. Shiel.

Vol. VIII. The Woman who Did. By Grant Allen.

[Eighteenth edition now ready.

Vol. IX. Women’s Tragedies. By H. D. Lowry.

Vol. X. Grey Roses. By Henry Harland.

Vol. XI. At the First Corner and Other Stories. By H. B. Marriott Watson.

Vol. XII. Monochromes. By Ella D’Arcy.

Vol. XIII. At the Relton Arms. By Evelyn Sharp.

Vol. XIV. The Girl from the Farm. By Gertrude Dix.

Vol. XV. The Mirror of Music. By Stanley V. Makower.

Vol. XVI. Yellow and White. By W. Carlton Dawe.

Vol. XVII. The Mountain Lovers. By Fiona Macleod.

Vol. XVIII. The Woman Who Didn’t. By Victoria Crosse.

[Second edition now ready.

The following are in rapid preparation.

Vol. XIX. The Three Impostors. By Arthur Machen.

Vol. XX. Nobody’s Fault. By Netta Syrett.

Vol. XXI. The British Barbarians. By Grant Allen.

Vol. XXII. In Homespun. By E. Nesbit.

Vol. XXIII. Platonic Affections. By John Smith.

Vol. XXIV. Nets for the Wind. By Una Taylor.

Vol. XXV. Orange and Green. By Caldwell Lipsett.

Boston: Roberts Bros.

KING (MAUDE EGERTON).

Round about a Brighton Coach Office. With 30 Illustrations by Lucy Kemp Welch. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.

[In preparation.

LANDER (HARRY).

Weighed in the Balance: A Novel. Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d. net.

[In preparation.

LANG (ANDREW). See Stoddart.

LEATHER (R. K.).

Verses. 250 copies. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. net.

Transferred by the Author to the present Publisher.

LE GALLIENNE (RICHARD).

Prose Fancies. With Portrait of the Author by Wilson Steer. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo. Purple cloth. 5s. net.

Also a limited large paper edition. 12s. 6d. net.

New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.

The Book Bills of Narcissus, An Account rendered by Richard le Gallienne. Third Edition. With a Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. Purple cloth. 3s. 6d. net.

Also 50 copies on large paper. 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.

New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.

Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy, and Other Poems, mainly Personal. With Etched Title-page by D. Y. Cameron. Cr. 8vo. Purple cloth. 4s. 6d. net.

Also 75 copies on large paper. 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.

Boston: Copeland & Day.

English Poems. Fourth Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. Purple cloth. 4s. 6d. net.

Boston: Copeland & Day.

Retrospective Reviews, A Literary Log, 1891-1895. 2 vols. crown 8vo. Purple cloth. 9s. net.

[In preparation.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.

George Meredith: Some Characteristics. With a Bibliography (much enlarged) by John Lane, Portrait, etc. Fourth Edition. Cr. 8vo. Purple cloth. 5s. 6d. net.

The Religion of a Literary Man. 5th thousand. Crown 8vo. Purple cloth. 3s. 6d. net.

Also a special rubricated edition on hand-made paper. 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.

New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.

LIPSETT (CALDWELL).

Orange and Green. (See Keynotes Series.)

LOWRY (H. D.).

Women’s Tragedies. (See Keynotes Series.)

LUCAS (WINIFRED).

A Volume of Poems. Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d. net.

[In preparation.

LYNCH (HANNAH).

The Great Galeoto and Folly or Saintliness. Two Plays, from the Spanish of José Echegaray, with an Introduction. Small 4to. 5s. 6d. net.

Boston: Lamson, Wolffe & Co.

MACHEN (ARTHUR).

The Great God Pan. (See Keynotes Series.)

The Three Impostors. (See Keynotes Series.)

MACLEOD (FIONA).

The Mountain Lovers. (See Keynotes Series.)

MAKOWER (STANLEY V.).

The Mirror of Music. (See Keynotes Series.)

MARZIALS (THEO.).

The Gallery of Pigeons and Other Poems. Post 8vo. 4s. 6d. net.

[Very few remain.

Transferred by the Author to the present Publisher.

MATHEW (FRANK).

The Wood of the Brambles: A Novel. Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d. net.

[In preparation.

THE MAYFAIR SET.

Each volume fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

Vol. I. The Autobiography of a Boy: Passages selected by his Friend, G. S. Street. With a Title-page designed by C. W. Furse.

[Fourth Edition now ready.

Vol. II. The Joneses and the Asterisks: a Story in Monologue. By Gerald Campbell. With Title-page and six Illustrations by F. H. Townsend.

Vol. III. Select Conversations with an Uncle now extinct. By H. G. Wells. With Title-page by F. H. Townsend.

The following are in preparation.

Vol. IV. The Feasts of Autolycus: The Diary of a Greedy Woman. Edited by Elizabeth Robins Pennell.

Vol. V. Mrs Albert Grundy: Observations in Philistia. By Harold Frederic.

Vol. VI. For Plain Women Only. By George Fleming.

New York: The Merriam Company.

MEREDITH (GEORGE).

The First Published Portrait of this Author, engraved on the wood by W. Biscombe Gardner, after the painting by G. F. Watts. Proof copies on Japanese vellum, signed by painter and engraver. £1, 1s. net.

MEYNELL (MRS.), (ALICE C. THOMPSON).

Poems. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

[Out of Print at present.

A few of the 50 large paper copies (First Edition) remain, 12s. 6d. net.

The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

A few of the 50 large paper copies (First Edition) remain, 12s. 6d. net.

See also Hake.

MILLER (JOAQUIN).

The Building of the City Beautiful. Fcap. 8vo. With a Decorated Cover. 5s. net.

Chicago: Stone & Kimball.

MILMAN (LENA).

Dostoievsky’s Poor Folk. (See Keynotes Series.)

MONKHOUSE (ALLAN).

Books and Plays: A Volume of Essays on Meredith, Borrow, Ibsen, and others. 400 copies. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.

MOORE (GEORGE).

See Keynotes Series, Vol. III.