Author: Egan, Beresford.
Title: THE SINK OF SOLITUDE. Being a Series of Satirical Drawings occasioned by some Recent Events performed by ... To Which is added a Preface by P.R. Stephensen, Gent, and a Verse Lampoon composed by Several Hands and now set forth for the first time. the whole very proper to be read both on Family and Public Occasions.
Description: The Hermes Press ..., 1928. Thin 4to. [32]pp. 6 plates. Light age toning, original wrapps., some marking and rust stains, leading corner curled also affecting first four leaves of text, loss to backstrip. ¶ A satire on the banning of Radclyffe Hall's controversial novel The Well Of Loneliness’ (1928). The poem's primary targets were James Douglas and William Joynson-Hicks. Douglas called for the suppression of The Well of Loneliness, and Joynson-Hicks started legal proceedings against it.

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