Search Results: the masque of shadows and other by john payne

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London: Printed for the Villon Society by Private Subscription and for Private Circulation Only , 1898. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 9" x 6"; p. lxxii + 208; decorated vellum boards in red and gilt, title to side and back. #512, hand numbered. Top edge gilt. Touch of discoloration to vellum, endpapers a touch foxed.

London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1870. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [8], 222-[225]; original decorative red-stamped black cloth, gilt-titled spine, the spine ends and forecorners worn and fraying, covers somewhat rubbed, the hinges cracking but firm, scattered light foxing, primarily to prelims and terminals, generally good and sound. This copy inscribed by the author to German painter/translator "Rudolf Blind with kind regards, John Payne." A poet of Pre-Raphaelite sensibilities, Payne (1842-1916) also translated works by the medieval French poet François Villon and The Arabian Nights into English. The Masque of Shadows includes his "The Romaunt of Sir Floris."

London, MD, United Kingdom: BASIL MONTAGU PICKERING, 1870. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Payne, 1842-1916, was a poet and translator; he was friends with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and a member of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. INSCRIBED TO ANNIE PRITCHARD HER AFFECTIONATE BROTHER and signed by the author. Covers are a little marked and a tear to about half the spine on rear cover.