LE GALLIENNE, Richard - Limited Editions. A Prose fancy: together with Confessio Amantis, A Sonnet. (Bookplate of Gerrit Komrij).

London, Privately Printed for Richard Le Gallienne, Elkin Mathews, John Lane and their friends, Christmas, 1893. 16 x 12 cm. Original Ingres paper wrappers pasted on laid text paper with original vellum paper backing. (4), 16 p. Printed in red and black (in 700 copies). First edition. Wrappers a bit soiled. With the tiny bookplate of Gerrit Komrij. A little book full of funny love for rare books: "WHY does the heathen so furiously rage against limited editions, large papers, first editions, and the rest?" "YES, 'from scarped cliff and quarried stone,' Nature cries, 'Limit the Edition! Distribute the type!' Though in her capacity as the great publisher she has been all too prodigal of her issues, and ruinously guilty of innumerable remainders." We added a book in the same vein: The Book Bills of Narcissus. An Account Rendered by Richard Le Gallienne. Leicester-Nottingham, Frank Murray Derby, 1892. 2nd edition. With the bookplate of Gerrit Komrij. Some wear.