ELLIS, Edwin J.
Fate in Arcadia and Other Poems.
An extraordinary issue, half the size again of the ordinary state, and with an added frontispiece, pictorial title page and seven illustrations not found in the ordinary state. The extra illustrations are printed in sepia and would appear to be actual lithographs, unlike the process blocks of the regular copies.
A presentation copy, inscribed to the Irish writer [Joseph] Fitzgerald Molloy “with the best of best wishes”: the Dictionary of Irish Biography’s entry on Molloy comes alive with the mention that he simultaneously entertained Wilde and Bernard Shaw at dinner.
Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy (1858-1908), was a historian/biographer specializing in theater and royalty, though he also wrote a biography of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Binding somewhat soiled and rubbed at extremities, pin-hole in spine, but a very good copy.
