The Pageant, Vols. I & II
C. Hazlewood Shannon and Gleeson White, editors. The Pageant, Vols. I & II. London: Henry and Company, 1896 and 1897. First editions.
Two quarto volumes. 243pp + 9pp ads; 266pp + 7pp ads. Illustrated with numerous plates and woodcuts, some color. Publisher's brown cloth, spines and front covers lettered and decorated in gilt, deckled edges, illustrated endleaves by Lucien Pissaro. Contributors include W. B. Yeats, Paul Verlaine, Maurice Maeterlinck, Max Beerbohm, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeil Whistler, Sir Edward Burne Jones, and more.
First two years of this important periodical chronicling Pre-Raphaelite art and literature.
Boards rubbed and soiled; gently bumped to corners; foxed to endleaves; light toning throughout; lacking rare multi-color dust wrappers. Very good. Item #2652
Price: $450.00