[BEARDSLEY, AUBREY]. LAST LETTERS OF AUBREY BEARDSLEY With an Introductory Note by John Gray. London, 1904. Publisher's decorative cloth. Binding worn and glazed, with some soiling. John Gray, sometime poet, author of 'Silverpoints' -- translator of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and friend to the Decadents, including Pierre Louys. Some suggest that he was an inspiration for Oscar Wilde's fictional creation, Dorian Gray. After studying for the priesthood Gray was ordained by Cardinal Pietro Respighi at St John Lateran on 21 December 1901. His life partner, Marc-André Raffalovich, was a wealthy poet and early defender of homosexuality. Offered with: Symons, Arthur. THE ART OF AUBREY BEARDSLEY. New York: Modern Library, (1918). A small volume, in the scarce dust jacket.
PROVENANCE: Estate of Jim Graham, former Washington, DC, Councilman Estimate $60-90
