SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON,IN THE KEY OF BLUE AND OTHER PROSE ESSAYS. London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane / Macmillan & Co., London & New York, 1893. Publisher's cream cloth, elaborately stamped in gilt after a design by Charles Ricketts. First trade edition of a major 'nineties book. Bound in the usual cream colored cloth, rather than the blue in which a few trial copies were issued. With the bookplate and signature of Amerian writer (and book collector) Eugene Field. Also, with the Herbert Boyce Satcher booklabel.
PROVENANCE: Estate of Jim Graham, former Washington, DC, Councilman Estimate $200-300
