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II. EVELINA AND HER GUARDIAN, design for ill.u.s.tration, pen and ink and wash, 6-7/8 4-7/8 (exclusive of marginal lines), not published.

III. Another ill.u.s.tration for the same, ”Love for Love,” a wash drawing, 7-1/2 5-1/4, unpublished. 1893.

63. VIRGILIUS THE SORCERER. David Nutt, 1893. Frontispiece to the large paper copies only. Reproduced in ”Early Work.”

64. THE LANDSLIP, frontispiece to ”Pastor Sang,” being William Wilson's translation of Bjornson's drama, ”Over aevne.” Longmans & Co., 1893.

A black and white design, in conscious imitation of Albert Durer, as the peculiar form of the signature A. B. shows, the only occasion on which the artist employed this device. Reproduced in ”Early Work.”

(Property of Messrs s.h.i.+rley & Co., Paris.)

65. BON MOTS. 3 VOLUMES. DENT & CO., 1893.

I. t.i.tle-page reproduced in ”Later Work.”

II. Figure with fool's bauble, and another small ornament for the cover.

III. 208 grotesques and other ornaments in the three volumes. Some of these, however, are repeated, and some printed in different sizes.

Three of them reproduced in ”Later Work.” In an article by Max Beerbohm in the _Idler_, May 1898, accompanied by ”some drawings that have never before been reproduced,” are nine small vignettes of the ”Bon Mots” type, of which number three only are explicitly ascribed to ”Bon Mots” (A sheet of them belongs to W. H. Jessop, Esq. Nineteen are the property of Pickford Waller, Esq.)

66. FOLLY, intended for ”Bon Mots,” but not used in the book. The figure is walking along a branch of hawthorn, the left hand upraised, and holding the fool's baton; a flight of b.u.t.terflies in lower left-hand corner; with drawing 8 5-1/4 inches. (Property of Littleton Hay, Esq.)

67. PAGAN PAPERS, a volume of Essays by Kenneth Grahame. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893. t.i.tle-page, design for.

68. ADA LUNDBERG, head and shoulders to right, coloured crayons on brown paper. Reproduced in colour in ”Later Work.” (Property of Julian Sampson, Esq.)

69. KEYHOLES SERIES OF NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES.--(The publication of this series was begun by Messrs Elkin Mathews and John Lane, and afterwards continued by Mr John Lane alone.)

I. Keynotes by George Egerton, 1893. t.i.tle-page design (the same employed for the cloth cover). Ornamental key, embodying the author's monogram, on back of ”Contents” page (the same device on the back of the book). This plan was adopted for each volume of the series.

II. The Dancing Faun, by Florence Farr (the Faun in the design has the eyegla.s.s and features of J. McNeill Whistler).

III. Poor Folk. Translated from the Russian of F. Dostoievsky, by Lena Milman.

IV. A Child of the Age, by Francis Adams.

V. The Great G.o.d Pan and the Inmost Light, by Arthur Machen, also unfinished sketch in pencil upon the back of the finished design.

VI. Discords, by George Egerton.

VII. Prince Zaleski, by M. P. s.h.i.+el.

VIII. The Woman who Did, by Grant Allen.

IX. Women's Tragedies, by H. D. Lowry, 1895.

X. Grey Roses, by Henry Harland.

XI. At the First Corner, and other Stories, by H. B. Marriott Watson.

XII. Monochromes, by Ella D'Arcy.

XIII. At the Relton Arms, by Evelyn Sharp.