KEYNOTE. MAKOWER, Stanley Victor. The Mirror of Music. FIRST EDITION. John Lane. (Keynotes Series, no. 15) 1895
Half title, title designed by Aubrey Beardsley, 12pp reviews & 16pp unopened cata. (1895). Uncut in orig. dark green cloth, blocked in white, spine lettered in gilt. A v.g. crisp copy.
¶Stanley Victor Makower, 1872-1911, was the child of German-Jewish immigrants and trained as a lawyer at Cambridge; The Mirror of Music was his first novel. He had previously published two stories in The Passing of a Mood in 1893, he also went on to contribute to Lane's periodical The Yellow Book. This novel is dedicated to French cabaret singer and star of the Moulin Rouge, Yvette Guilbert.
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£250
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