HORNE, Herbert P.. Diversi Colores.. London published by the Author at the Chiswick Press, 1891.

Price: US$272.25 + shipping

Description: First edition; 12mo; decorative title printed in red & black, device by the authir printed in red at end, light browning to free endpapers; publisher's drab boards with printed title label to spine, slightly browned, a good copy. With a delightful title-page designed by Selwyn Image, reproduced in A.J.A. Symonds' article 'The Typography of the 1890s' in Fleuron, VII, p.118. Oscar Wilde wrote to the author, '.what a lovely little book! And what dainty verse. indeed the whole book is full of honey and very sweet to taste, and just touched with that sadness which is inseparable from modern art.' (July 1891).

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