WATSON, William.

Excursions in Criticism: Some Recreations of a Rhymer.

First edition, one of 50 copies. 8vo. Original quarter vegetable parchment spine with printed label and blue paper-covered boards. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane; New York: Macmillan & Co., 1893.

£90.00
WATSON, William.
Excursions in Criticism: Some Recreations of a Rhymer.

Sold out within a week of publication, according to the Pall Mall Gazette (April 8 1893).

In 1892, Macmillan wrote Mathews and Lane to say they would be ‘happy to accept proposal that we take some copies of Watson’s Excursions @ 2/6 in exchange for the remaining copies of Walter Crane’s vol. of poems, which we presume you will credit to us at the price paid for them’. As Nelson notes, Macmillan’s inventory suggests that Crane’s book had not done well in America. Nelson EM p. 103

Bottom half of spine missing and corners of boards worn. Text block clean and tight in the binding.

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