PATER, Walter

An Imaginary Portrait [The Child in the House]

Oxford, H. Daniel [Daniel Press], 1894 [first thus].

Sextodecimo, [iv], 61, [3] (printer's device, blank, colophon) pages.

Handsomely bound in contemporary morocco, gilt, by Morley of Oxford; top edge gilt, others uncut; covers a little rubbed at the extremities, with the top corners lightly bumped; contemporary pencilled ownership signature at the head of the title page ('G.H. Waddy 1894'); an excellent copy.

The first separate edition; the story was first published in 1878 in 'Macmillan's Magazine', Volume 38. Number 174 of only 250 copies, hand-set and hand-printed on laid paper at the Daniel Press.

Provenance: the New Zealand collector and photographic historian Hardwicke Knight (1911-2008), with his bookplate.

Item #87997

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