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BEARDSLEY, AUBREY. THE BALLAD OF A BARBER.
(Regensburg: Order of Hermann Kruse...), 1919. 4to, 9pp, frontispiece drawing & silouette tailpiece. Full black morocco, ruled & lettered in gilt, Japanese paper fly-leaves. Light wear to extremities, otherwise fine. ¶ One of 265 numbered copies, the first separate edition of the 'Ballad of a Barber,' first published in The Savoy. The attractively illustrated and amusing poem narrates the miraculous successes of a barber who dies making his first haircutting errors while dressing the hair of an attractive thirteen-year-old princess. Gallatin p.108. Lasner 163.
Offered for US$ 45.00 by: Dailey Rare Books - Book number: 355.