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Women's Tragedies.

KEYNOTE. LOWRY, Henry Dawson. Women's Tragedies. FIRST EDITION. John Lane. (Keynotes Series, no. 9) 1895
Half title, title designed by Aubrey Beardsley, 6pp reviews & 16pp cata. (1895). Uncut in orig. light blue cloth, blocked in orange, spine lettered in gilt; spine darkened, boards rubbed & a little dulled. Presentation inscription on leading f.e.p.: 'To Christopher Wilson, these small? tales of good women, from H.D. Lowry'. 15. II. 03.' Also with 9 lines of verse on verso.

¶Poem on f.e.p. verso reads: 'To C.W. Though once she was a little child/She's ? damned & gone to hell/(O, heart of mine, of so little Heart)/With all the men who Cruel her well/Save one, and he is left alone/And hales the gladness of the sun,/And reads the dreams that come with sleep.../Sleep, sleep, that these? may be won. H.D.L. in return for music. 15. II. 03'.
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£450


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