The Printed Work of Claud Lovat Fraser.

(Fraser.) [MILLARD (Christopher, a.k.a. Stuart Mason)]

The Printed Work of Claud Lovat Fraser.

Description: FIRST EDITION, 142/250 COPIES signed by the compiler, frontispiece self-portrait, Lovat Fraser tail-piece and 4 full-page illustrations at rear, 1 colour-printed, with a bad-tempered slip tipped in to the front endpapers explaining that the delay in the book's publication is 'due entirely to the printers', pp. xii, 106 + Illustrations, 8vo, original quarter black cloth with orange patterned paper boards, printed label (a trifle chipped) to backstrip, some minor rubbing and soiling, edges untrimmed, uncut, and a little dusty, free endpapers browned, very good

Publication Details: Henry Danielson, 1923

Notes: The copy of Reynolds Stone. Thought without mark of ownership, the pencilled note to this effect at the foot of the rear pastedown is that of his son-in-law, Jonathan Gili. Millard came to bookselling late in life, having earlier gained renown (under the name Stuart Mason) as the bibliographer of Oscar Wilde - and been embroiled in the disputes between Robert Ross and Lord Alfred Douglas. The vindictive fall-out from the latter led to his imprisonment for gross indecency - and it was following his release from which that he turned to bookselling....moreThe copy of Reynolds Stone. Thought without mark of ownership, the pencilled note to this effect at the foot of the rear pastedown is that of his son-in-law, Jonathan Gili. Millard came to bookselling late in life, having earlier gained renown (under the name Stuart Mason) as the bibliographer of Oscar Wilde - and been embroiled in the disputes between Robert Ross and Lord Alfred Douglas. The vindictive fall-out from the latter led to his imprisonment for gross indecency - and it was following his release from which that he turned to bookselling. HIDE