The Happy Hypocrite

London / New York: John Lane - The Bodley Head, [1915]. First Thus. First printing of the Sheringham-illustrated edition. Small quarto (26cm). Cream buckram, titled in gilt, decoratively printed in colors on front cover; pictorial endpapers; color frontispiece and 22 inserted leaves of 2- and 4-color plates. A tight, straight, and attractive copy, the spine just a shade darkened but still Near Fine.

First illustrated edition of Beerbohm's celebrated modern fable, first published in The Yellow Book in 1896. Sheringham's illustrations, though somewhat anachronistic, still manage to capture the late-Decadent flavor of the tale.