A London Comedy and Other Vanities. With seven reproductions of pictures by Maurice Greiffenhagen.

AUTHOR'S COPY, WITH HIS MANUSCRIPT REVISIONS FOR THE SECOND EDITION. Octavo: 96 pages. Seven plates (of eight). Original olive cloth gilt, with pierrot on front board. Numbered copy twelve in the edition. One leaf (pages 49-50) removed. Aged, and in heavily worn boards. Carrying manuscript changes on twenty-two pages, as well as on a plate and the front board. Cutting loosely inserted, regarding a couplet by 'E. V. L.' of Brighton (clearly E. V. Lucas) addressed to Mew regarding the word 'hyperbole'. Six of Greiffenhagen's seven illustrations are present. The missing plate ('A WOODMAN LOVED') has been removed from the body of the book, and was intended to serve as frontispiece to the new edition, which was published by Elkin Mathews in 1899 (James G. Nelson, 'Elkin Mathews', 1989, p.210).