Ballads and Songs.
DAVIDSON, John (1894.)
£160.00 [First Edition]
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Pictorial title page. First edition. London: John Lane; Boston: Copeland and Day,
A near fine copy of the first issue, without the errata slip, and the armorial bookplate of Arthur Quiller-Couch, fellow contributor to The Speaker. Q was probably the author of the first mainstream review of a book by Davidson, an enthusiastic notice of Scaramouch in Naxos, which he followed with a rave review of A Random Itinerary.
Ballads and Songs was a great success, with warm notices from all, and all of its 5,000 copies sold quickly.
Stock Code: 236731
