Renunciations

London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. Limited edition, 1 of 375 copies. A collection of three remarkable, naturalistic short stories by a writer primarily known as an art critic. Includes: A Chemist in the Suburbs, A Confidence at the Savile, and the North Coast and Eleanor. Original pink cloth with gilt title to spine and front cover. Bumping and chipping to head of spine. A few small dampstains to front cover. Bookplate of Henry William Poor to front pastedown. Browning to endpapers. Light browning to edges of untrimmed pages. Text is clean and bright. 100 pages. Literature. LIT/070320.