The author’s copy, with his bookplate and ownership inscription “Lionel Johnson / 20 Fitzroy Street: London. / Sept: 1894.“ and with corrections in his hand on six pages, three of them noted in the printed list of errata. With an unidentified press announcement pasted below his inscription announcing “There is but one Thomas Hardy, and Mr. Lionel Johnson is to be his prophet … Mr. Johnson is a young Oxford man of quite incredible learning, and, we may now be permitted to divulge, was one of the mainstays of the literary portion of the Anti-Jacobin.”
Boards barely attached, spine darkened and slightly worn and stained, in part by earlier attempts at repairing the joints..
