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AN ABRIDGED LIST OF THE BOOKS, PRINTS, AND MUSIC PUBLISHED AND FOR SALE AT THE SIGN OF THE UNICORN, VII CECIL COURT, SAINT MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, W.C., WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED THROUGH ANY BOOKSELLER IN THE WORLD, OR DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHERS. MDCCCCI.
PRINTS, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, and MONOGRAPHS on ARTISTS.
WESTERN FLANDERS. A Medley of Things Seen, Considered, and Imagined. By Laurence Binyon. With ten Etchings by William Strang. 2l. 2s. net.
This volume measures 17 x 12 inches. The letterpress was printed on hand-made Van Gelder paper by the Chiswick Press, and the etchings were printed on 'O. W.' paper by F. Goulding. The binding is white buckram, with dark green cloth sides richly gilt. A few sets of Artist's Proofs of the Etchings on old Dutch paper remain for sale.
LIBER JUNIORUM. A Buckram Portfolio, containing Six Lithographed Drawings by Will Rothenstein. The subjects are Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Laurence Binyon, Laurence Housman, Stephen Phillips, and W. B. Yeats. After 50 Copies of each had been printed (by Way, on hand-made Van Gelder paper), the stones were destroyed. 5l. 5s. net (a few remain).
RUDYARD KIPLING (4l. 4s. net) and ROBERT BRIDGES (2l. 12s. 6d. net). Etched Portraits made from life by William Strang. Artist's Proofs. (No other state.)
ROBERT BURNS. A Woodcut by Robert Bryden (12 x 10 ins.) 2s. 6d. net.
MM. RODIN, FANTIN LATOUR, AND LEGROS. Three Lithographed Drawings by Will Rothenstein. In a wrapper. 2l. 2s. net the set.
∵ These portraits were made from sittings given in Paris in 1897. Only fifty copies of each drawing were printed (by Way), and the stones have been destroyed.
A few sets (each drawing on hand-made Van Gelder paper, and signed by the artist) remam for sale.
A BOOK OF GIANTS. Drawn, Engraved, and Written by William Strang. Foolscap 4to. 2s. 6d. net.
∵Twenty-five copies printed from the original blocks have been hand-coloured by Mr. Strang. A few remain. 3l. 3s. net.
The Saturday Review—'The woodcuts by themselves stand an attraction to the collector.'
A BOOK OF IMAGES. Drawn by W. T. Horton, and Introduced by W. B. Yeats. Foolscap 4to. 2s. 6d. net.
The Birmingham Daily Gazette.—'An artist with true vision and with skilful touch, who has produced pictures weird, mystical, and beautiful.'
AUBREY BEARDSLEY. By Arthur Symons. In foolscap 4to. half cloth, gilt. With Three hitherto Unpublished Portraits (one in Photogravure) and Six Drawings (one in Colours and two hitherto Unpublished), 2s. 6d. net,
HEBREW PALÆOGRAPHY. A Series of Eighteen Facsimiles of MSS. of the Hebrew Bible. With a Description by Christian D. Ginsburg, LL.D. 1l. 1s. net.
This important work consists of eighteen Collotype Plates, each measuring 23 x 18 inches over all, and enclosed, together with twenty sheets of letterpress, in a handsome portfolio. No expense has been spared in producing the plates, which are, in size and all other respects, veritable facsimiles of their originals. The text has been written by Dr. Christian D. Ginsburg, to whose edition of the Massorah and the Massoretico-critical text of the Hebrew Bible it practically furnishes a Palæographical Supplement.
THE APARTMENTS OF THE HOUSE: Their Arrangement, Furnishing and Decoration. By Joseph Crouch and Edmund Butler. Fcap. 4to. 7s. 6d. net.
This work discusses the Hall, Dining-room, Drawing-room, Billiard-room, Morning-room Smoke-room, and Bedroom, and contains chapters on Furniture and on the application of the Arts and Crafts to the Decoration of the House. It is not a text-book for architectural students, but an attempt to explain,in the modern spirit and without technical language, how the house should be arranged, decorated and furnished. It contains 150 Illustrations, including a Photogravure Frontispiece after Dürer's 'St. Jerome in his Study,' and Six Plates after William Morris's and E. Burne-Jones's Tapestries at Stanmore Hall. The binding is decorated in three colours and gold. A four-page Illustrated Prospectus will be sent post free on application.
The Scotsman.—'They undertake to advise how people of moderate means may make the best use of their money for the decoration of their houses. They do this both by word and by illustration, and they do it with excellent taste, with ample knowledge, and with well-ordered enthusiasm for the beautiful.... If some missionary would take its lessons into every part of the country, and preach them in season and out of season, much good might be done.'
The Pilot.—'All who are intending to build a house should buy this book.'
The Literary World.—'We know no pleasanter guide.'
PIRANESI'S CARCERI. Sixteen Inventions Etched by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1750). Reproduced by James Hyatt. With an Introduction by E. J. Oldmeadow. Two hundred numbered Copies only. This work can be supplied loose in a portfolio—each plate measuring 22 x 16 inches over all—or cut down to 17 X 12 inches, in handsome half binding, extra gilt, 2l. 2s. net.
There are also ten copies on India paper, price 5l. 5s. net.
N.B.—This Edition of G. B. Piranesi's 'Carceri ' contains reproductions of all the Sixteen Plates. These extraordinary dreams are certainly Piranesi's most characteristic and impressive performance' Their effect on De Quincey (who appears, however, only to have known them from Coleridge's description), is well known, and most readers of the Confessions of an English Opium Eater have felt great curiosity in regard to them.
IN MEMORIAM. By Alfred Lord Tennyson. With 134 Large Rubricated Initials (all different) from designs by Blanche McManus. It is a medium 8vo. (9½ x 6 inches), printed in red and black from remarkably bold type, and bound in cream and gold. It is encased in a box ready for presentation. Only 100 copies were printed for England, which are numbered. 10s. 6d. net.
THE ARTISTS LIBRARY.
Edited by LAURENCE BINYON.
The Volumes of the Artist's Library are Foolscap Quartos (8½x6¾ inches). The Letterpress is on antique laid paper. The Illustrations are all separately printed. The Binding is white cloth with blue sides. The price is 2s. 6d. net each volume.
HOKUSAI. By C. J Holmes. With Twenty full-page Plates, including Four Plates printed in Colours. Second Edition.
Le Mercure de France.—'Ce beau volume est nécessaire à tons les artistes et à tous ceux qui aiment l'art.'
GIOVANNI BELLINI. By Roger E. Fry. With Twenty-three Full-page Plates, including Three Photogravures. Second Edition.
Literature.—'A model of its kind. It is beautifully printed and bound, and both letterpress and illustrations are exceptionally good.'
The Times.—'Mr. Binyon's series is evidently aiming at a high ideal of scholarship.... Mr. Fry goes to work in the right way.'
ALTDORFER. By T. Sturge Moore. With Twenty-five pages or Illustrations, most of them in tints.
The Saturday Review (in two-column notice).—'Mr. Sturge Moore is the right sympathetic expounder of this half-childish secluded nature. His own imagination, with its delight in quaint surprises of observation and sharp simplicities of expression, fits him to handle an art that is not for everybody, and at whose gates heavy trespassers should rather be warned by notice-boards than strollers invited by guide-posts.'
GOYA. By Will Rothenstein. With Twenty Full-page Plates, including Three Photogravures and Nine Tinted Prints.
The Athenæum.—'Both on the technical and æsthetical side there could be no happier combination of writer and subject than the present. Not only has Mr. Rothenstein been deeply influenced by Goya's painting, but the spirit in which they approach life and nature is similar, and their forms of activity are the same.... Fortunately he exhibits a power of exposition often denied to artists. He can make us see and weigh the qualities which have given Goya so great an influence on the development of modern art. Whether dealing with the general principle of an artist's appreciation of a master, or more particularly with Goya's relationship to the romantic revival of the early nineteenth century, every word should be weighed.... The publishers have done their work well.'
CONSTABLE. By C. J. Holmes.
In Preparation.
VAN DYCK. By Lionel Cust. (In Two Volumes.)
HUBERT AND JOHN VAN EYCK. By Frances C. Weale. Revised by and based on the researches of W. H. James Weale.
COZENS and the Origins of English Water-colours. By Laurence Binyon.
LEONARDO DA VINCI. By Herbert P. Horne.
RODIN. By T. Sturge Moore.
ALFRED STEVENS. By D. S. McColl.
PIERO DI COSIMO. By Roger E. Fry.
LITTLE ENGRAVINGS.
POETRY.
SHADOWS AND FIREFLIES. By Louis Barsac. Gilt top, 2s. 6d. net. Second Edition.
The Outlook.—'Mr. Barsac has a genuine gift of expression, and a refined sense of natural beauty.'
THE LITTLE CHRISTIAN YEAR. Med. 16mo. vellum, gilt top, 2s. 6d. net. New and cheaper edition, in white cloth with fleur-de-lys decoration in Blue, 1s. net.
The Church Review.—'A miniature in every sense, it is worthy of the title. 'To each of nineteen chosen Christian seasons four pages are devoted. The first contains the title, the second a text of Holy Scripture, the third a short poem of from four to twelve lines, and the last a little prayer of a single sentence at once allusive in its language, and direct in its point of appeal. The poems—and here is the note of novelty-are in the main not directly religious, but are little impressionist sketches of some aspect of life and nature, duly connected with their subject by an invisible yet none the less real link. And sometimes the connection is only by force of contrast—in the poem on the Annunciation, a daring but illuminating contrast.'
WILLOW LEAVES. By Russell Veitch. Med. 16mo. gilt top 2s. 6d. net.
The Western Mercury.—'A really excellent volume of verse.... natural and effective.'
POEMS AT WHITE NIGHTS. By Gordon Bottomley. Med. 16mo. gilt top, 2s. 6d. net.
The Academy.—conscientious artificer, with the sense of beauty ever awake.'
The Outlook.—'Power and spiritual significance, and even a contribution to religious knowledge lurk in these verses.'
IN THE WAKE OF THE SUN. Poems by F. G. Bowles. Med. 16mo. gilt top, 2s. 6d. net.
The Outlook.—'There is as genuine a lyrical impulse behind the singer's achievement as you will find in any of our younger poets.
ROSELEAVES FROM PHILOSTRATUS. By Percy Osborn. Med. 16mo. gilt top, 2s. 6d. net.
The Manchester Guardian.—'Well deserves its exquisite format, and its place in the charming little series to which it belongs.'
The Athenæum.—'His language and versification are natural and easy; the cloven hoof of the translator is seldom disclosed.'
VIGIL AND VISION. By W. H. Phelps. Med. 16mo. gilt top 2s. 6d. net.
The Glasgow Herald.—'These sonnets prove that Mr. Phelps is undoubtedly a true poet.'
SONGS OF YESTERDAY. By F. G. Bowles. Med. 16mo. gilt top, 2s. 6d. net.
THE BACCHANTE, AND OTHER POEMS. By Walter Hogg.
Med. 16mo. gilt top, 2s. 6d. net.
The Literary World.—'There can be no doubt that Mr. Hogg has the root of the matter in him.'
The Glasgow Herald.—'Many of the minor pieces are very fine.'
JOHN OF DAMASCUS. By Douglas Ainslie. Crown 8vo. half-bound, 5s. net. Second Edition.
The Outlook.—'On the whole it is safe to say that we have not had anything quite so spontaneous, so fresh, so deft, and so promising for a considerable time past. The author writes limpid and picturesque verse off the end of his pen, as it were, and without the smallest apparent effort. He rhymes you page on page of the soundest, frankest, and prettiest stuff, never getting out of breath, never faltering or hesitating, and never tumbling into the sloughs and quagmires that beset the long-winded. Choose where you will, there is something that takes you.... Wherever one turns, too, one finds a wisdom, an insight, and a flow of spirits that are miles away from the minor ruck, and that really sets one believing that Mr. Ainslie may be destined to help us right out of our precious hot-houses into the open road, where there is a wind and strength.'
ODES. By Laurence Binyon. With a Woodcut Title-page after William Strang. Crown 8vo. cloth gilt, 2s. 6d. net.
The Scotsman.—'Of a severe yet delicate beauty.'
The Athenæum.—'Mr. Binyon is slowly but surely winning for himself a distinguished place in the ranks of contemporary poetry. He has the right temper; he does not cry aloud in the streets, or make any attempt to catch the veering of the popular taste, but is content to write for the sake of having written, with invariable sincerity of thought, directness of vision, and conscientious craftsmanship. The best of these Odes are on the highest level of achievement.'
RUE. By Laurence Housman. Imp. 16mo. cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. net.
The Pall Mall Gazette.—'It is poetry, and not merely accomplished verse.'
THE VINE-DRESSER. By T. Sturge Moore. Fcap. 8vo. cloth gilt, 2s. 6d. net.
The Times.—'Mr. Moore's is an austere and somewhat stiff-jointed Muse, but she is of the true lineage. The lover of poetry will find evidence of this on every page.... Mr. Moore has an individual talent and a gift of distinction. The first poem in the book—a recipe for making Coän wine, supposed to have been "sent from Egypt with a fair robe of tissue to a Sicilian vine-dresser, B.C. 276"—is like a cameo with its clear-cut images of sea and Sicily.'
APHRODITE AGAINST ARTEMIS. A Play. Small Quarto. By T. Sturge Moore. Cloth gilt, 2s. 6d. net.
THE WHITE ALTAR. By Jesse Berridge. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.
THE NESS KING, AND OTHER POEMS. By Charles J. Whitby. Two Volumes. Fcap. 8vo. 2s. 6d. net each volume.
THE STAR OF POLAND. By John G. Williamson. Fcap. 8vo. cloth gilt, 1s. net.
The Dundee Advertiser.—'[It] is written with both strength and tenderness, and is gemmed with lines that fix themselves in the memory.'
BELLES-LETTRES.
HAND AND SOUL. By Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Reprinted, without Notes or Decoration, on hand-made paper, and bound in lambskin, 2s. 6d. net. There are also some copies in full leather, hand-tooled, and highly finished, for presentation.
IVORY, APES, AND PEACOCKS. By 'Israfel.' Imp. 16mo. in a binding designed by Paul Woodroffe. 5s. net.
The Glasgow Herald.—'Undeniably clever and interesting.'
A LITTLE BEAST-BOOK. By 'Israfel.' Imp. 16mo. in a binding designed by Paul Woodroffe. 2s. 6d. net.
LITERARY PARABLES. By T. W. H. Crosland. Med. 16mo. extra gilt, 2s. 6d. net.
The Academy.—'Really excellent work in a medium of which very few writers have the secret.'
OTHER PEOPLE'S WINGS, THE ABSENT-MINDED MULE, FIFTY FABLES, and THE FINER SPIRIT. ('Sixpenny Belles-Lettres,' Nos. 1-4.) By T. W. H. Crosland. Fcap. 8vo. in paper, 6d. net; in buckram, gilt, 1s. net.
The Manchester Guardian.—'By Mr. T. W. H. Crosland, whose little paper-covered volumes are already known for their literary verve and wit.'
AN ENGLISHMAN'S LOVE-LETTERS. Third Thousand. Imp. 32mo. Tokio vellum with flaps and pink silk ribbon, all edges gilt, 2s. 6d. net.
The Daily Telegraph.—'There is a delicacy, a lightness, and brightness of touch, a really clever parodying of style which will make the little book really worth reading, even by those who, fired by the sentimental glamour of imaginary circumstances, have placed the "Love-Letters of an Englishwoman" in a very warm corner of their literary affections. The good parody should not induce the loud laugh, it should keep the sense of humour gently stirred; the flicker of a smile, broadening here and there to a grin, runs from cover to cover of these new love-letters. And not their least merit lies in their strict curtailment as to number and length.
'The Spectator.—'A very amusing and quite legitimate skit.'
THE VISITS OF HENRY VIII. By the Author of 'An Englishman's Love-Letters.' Imperial 32mo. Tokio vellum, flaps, all edges gilt, with a gold panel and studs, and an old-gold silk ribbon, 2s. 6d. net.
SHAKESPEARE NOT BACON. Some Arguments from Shakespeare's Copy of Florio's Montaigne, By Francis P. Gervais. With four folding Collotype Plates Demy 4vo. half bound, 7s. 6d net.
Literature.—'Very useful, particularly in its admirably reproduced facsimiles.'
The Spectator.—'The reasoning is followed out with much ingenuity and force.'
FICTION.
VERISIMILITUDES. A Volume of Stories by Rudolf Dircks. Imperial 16mo. cloth, gilt, 3s. 6d.
The Manchester Courier.—'Mr. Dircks is one of the cleverest writers of the day.... The volume will be highly valued by lovers of short stories.'
THE FACE OF A SOUL. By Joseph Dawson. Crown 8vo. cloth gilt, 6s.
The Daily Telegraph.—'Many new notions and much excellent writing.'
THE LIGHT THAT CAME, AND OTHER DREAMINGS. By Joseph Dawson. With Five Illustrations. Gold cloth and end papers, 2s. 6d. net.
The Pall Mall Gazette.—'Really charming in its fanciful, gentle dreamings.'
LADY LOHENGRIN. By J. E. Woodmeald. Crown 8vo. 6s.
The Scotsman.—'The story is one of exceptional merit.'
QUINFORD. By Arthur J. Holmes. In a decorated binding. Crown 8vo. cloth gilt, 6s.
The Athenæum.—'Full of clever passages.... The book is from a knowing hand.'
HEAVENS OF BRASS. By W. Scott King. In a decorated binding. Crown 8vo. gilt, 6s.
The Dublin Daily Express.—A very powerful and interesting tale.'
A CORNER OF OLD CORNWALL. By Mrs. John Bonham. With Three Illustrations. Fcap 8vo. cloth gilt, Second Edition, 3s. 6d. Popular Edition, cloth, 1s. 6d.
The Western Mercury.—'A book which is a treasure to handle. Here you have the raw material that might serve a Hardy or a Baring Gould for three or four volumes.'
CHRISTMAS IN CORNWALL SIXTY YEARS AGO. By Mrs. John Bonham. Fcap. Svo. 1s. net.
The Dundee Advertiser.—'This is a quaint book, breathing the spirit of the past and introducing some engaging characters. Mrs. Bonham has the happy art of giving a picture in a sentence or two.'
THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS. By Isabel Fry. Imp. 16mo. gilt top, 5s. net.
Literature.—'It is almost the most attractive and sympathetic thing of the kind that we have come across.'
The Academy.—'This book stands out as an authentic, almost inspired, record.... In its way it is very near perfection.'
The St. James's Gazette.—'In its own line it is about as good as it can be.'
MUSIC.
AODH TO DECTORA. A Song by W. B. Yeats. Set to Music by Thos. F. Dunhill. Full music size, 1s. net.
BAYREUTH AND MUNICH. A Travelling Record of German Operatic Music. By Vernon Blackburn, Imp. 16mo, boards, 1s. net.
The Glasgow Herald—'A thoughtful, sane little book altogether.... Mr. Blackburn's style is delicate and firm, and these essays, while being uncommonly good criticism, are also uncommonly good literature.'
OLD SCORES AND NEW READINGS. Discussions on Musical Subjects, By John F. Runciman, Imp, 16mo, gilt top, 5s. net. Second Edition, with a paper on Byrde.
Old Scores and New Readings contains papers on Purcell, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Verdi, Dvorak, Brahms, Tschaikowsky, &c.
The Musical Standard (in four-column notice).—'He has always something to say, and says it with considerable force.'
THE FRINGE OF AN ART. Appreciations in Music. By Vernon Blackburn. With Portraits of Mozart, Berlioz, Gounod, and Tschaikowsky. Uniform with Old Scores and New Readings. 5s. net.
The Fringe of an Art contains articles on Mozart, Boito, Gounod, Berlioz, Rossini, Verdi, Tschaikowsky, Wagner, Plain Song, Humour in Music, Maurel, Calvé, &c.
The Saturday Review.—'In its way a perfect bit of work.'
THE MUSICIAN'S LIBRARY. Edited by John F. Runciman.
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The following volumes are in preparation. They will be issued in imperial 16mo. printed on antique laid paper, and strongly bound, at the price of 2s. 6d. net each volume:—PURCELL, by the Editor; WAGNER, by Edward A. Baughan; GLUCK, by Sidney Thompson; MOZART, by Vernon Blackburn.
MISCELLANEOUS.
IDEALS IN IRELAND. Edited by Lady Gregory. Written by D. P. Moran, 'A. E.,' W. B. Yeats, Standish O'Grady, Douglas Hyde, and George Moore. Crown 8vo. decorated cloth, 2s. 6d. net.
The Speaker (in two-column notice).—'One of the group is the most completely delightful poet who uses our language at this day; another has the name of a noble singer in a language whose embers he has done more than any man living to revive; a third, known widely as a maker of very serious fiction, owns besides the most constructive and the least chastened personality among those who theorise consistently about art; the rest are poets and prose writers of some repute.'
THE MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY. The Official Narrative. Cloth, 2s. 6d. net.
BELTAINE. The Organ of the Irish Literary Theatre. With Articles and Poems by W. B. Yeats, George Moore, Douglas Hyde, C. H. Herford, Lionel Johnson, Edward Martyn, &c. Nos. 1, 2, and 3 strongly bound in one volume, price 1s. net.
THE DOME (Old Series, 1897-98). The Publishers have succeeded in making up a limited number of complete sets of the First Series of the Dome, which are now for sale in handsome gold-topped, canvas-bound volumes (8¼ by 6½ by 2 in.), price 7s. 6d. each net. When sold separately, Nos. 1, 2, and 5 of the Dome (Old Series) are now raised in price to 2s. 6d. each.
THE DOME. An Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Music, Architecture, and the Graphic Arts. Monthly, 1s. net. Also published in quarterly volumes, bound in blue cloth, gilt (7 volumes are ready), price 3s. 6d. net each.
The Pall Mall Gazette.—'There is so much that is fresh, so much that is fine, in the work of the younger school of poets, painters, writers, and etchers, that no one of an artistic taste can afford to ignore this unique publication.'
THE CHORD. A Quarterly devoted to Music. Imp. 16mo. strongly bound in brown boards, illustrated, 1s. net, or 5s. per annum post free.
The Outlook.—'The Unicorn Press has rendered another service to those who follow the best art of the day.' Parts 1-4 have been bound up into a handsomely bound volume. A few copies remain, price 5s. net.
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