The Venture An Annual of Art and Literature Edited By Laurence Housman and W. Somerset Maugham
(The Venture)
London: John Baillie's, 1903. F 249 pages; with a color illustrated frontispiece by Charles Hazelwood Shannon and black and white woodcut illustrations and vignettes throughout by Reginald Savage, Charles S. Ricketts, T. Sturge Moore, Lucien Pissarro, Bernard Sleigh, E.Goardon Craig, Louise Glazier, Elinor Monsell, Paul Woodroffe, Sydney Lee, Laurence Housman; "Literary Contents" including pieces by John Masefield, G.K. Chesterton, Thomas Hardy, Charles Marriott, Mrs. Meynell, A.E. Housman, Stephen Gwynn, Netta Syrett, Richard Garnett, Stpehen Phillips, Violet Hunt, Francis Thompson, S. Boulderson, Havelock Ellis, Laurence Binyon, May Bateman, E.F. Benson, W. Somerset Maugham, John Gray, John Todhunter; previous owner name of A.E. Gallatin on front endpaper; Albert Eugene Gallatin (1881-1952) American painter, writer, patron of the arts, especially abstract arts, founder of the Gallery of Living Art at New York University; small booksellers ticket of Sotheran on front endpaper, here misspelled "Herny" Sotheran & Co.; illustrated endpapers; grey illustrated paper boards binding; grey cloth spine; some edge, tips wear & darkening to boards, soiled; inner hinge papers splitting; still solidly sewn and contents in very good condition, an interesting early twentieth century illustrated literary periodical of some note. Good H (Item ID: 18657)
$150.00
