DAVIDSON, John.

Perfervid The Career of Ninian Jamieson.

With Twenty-three Illustrations by Harry Furniss. First edition. 8vo., original illustrated blue cloth lettered in gilt. London: Ward and Downey, 1890.

£280.00

Inscribed on the title page to the American author and patron “To Louise Chandler Moulton with kindest regards from John Davidson.” This volume escaped the donation of many hundreds of inscribed books from Moulton’s library to Boston Public Library, as described by her early biographer Lilian Whiting. Moulton kept a literary salon in London in the summer and Boston in the winter, and Whiting quotes the delightful opinion of Thomas Wentworth Higginson: of Moulton “Few American women, perhaps none, have succeeded in establishing such a pleasant intermedian position before English and American literature as have you”.

With the slightest of wear to board edges, but a fine copy of Davidson’s first book produced in London, as a professional writer. It was reviewed in The Speaker in the same issue as The Picture of Dorian Gray and the verdict was that Davidson “had every advantage of Mr. Wilde”.

Stock No.
236717