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DOBSON, AUSTIN. Old World Idylls. Small 8vo, dark brown crushed morocco janseniste by Zaehnsdorf, top edges gilt, split along bottom of front joint; lacks free endpapers; cloth chemise and 1/4 morocco slipcase. Third edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883
Unique copy, embellished with over fifty marginal pen and ink drawings and watercolors by contemporary artists, illustrators, and others, including Edwin A. Abbey, Oliver Herford, Alfred Parsons, Joseph Pennell, and Stanford White. This volume was apparently a kind of liber amicorum belonging to Dr. B. E. Martin, as most of the designs are dedicated to him and dated over a period of 2 decades; also with a signed 8-line poem to Martin from Dobson dated 6 March 1885; and with a signed 15-line poem to Dobson from the American author Henry Cuyler Bunner.
