Uranian Poets, and other erotic and homosexual Literature.

Stuart-Young, J.M. An Urning's Love. Hermes Press, 1905, LIMITED TO 50 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, printed in two colours with decorative borders, original vellum gilt--Egan, Beresford. The Sink of Solitude. Hermes Press, 1928, limited to 250 copies, in dust-jacket (very fine); another edition, in wrappers; and two others by Egan, one on De Sade; these four preserved in one folding box; Baudelaire. Fleurs du Mal in Pattern and Prose by Beresford Egan and C. Bower Alcock. The Sophistocles Press and T. Werner Laurie, 1929, colour frontispiece, drawings by Egan, one of 500 copies printed for private circulation signed by the author and artist, in a later DESIGNER BINDING of grey goatskin with onlaid circular designs inspired by the text--Lucian of Samosata. The Mimes of the Courtesans. New York: the Press of Classic Lore, decorations and illustrations by Charles Cullen, limited to 1050 copies, original parchment-backed purple boards gilt--Green, Leonard. The Youthful Lover... 1919, presentation copy inscribed by the author--Newman, A. Rondeaux of Boyhood. 1923, limited to 300 copies--original bindings unless stated, most preserved in folding boxes or case; various sizes (6)

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The satirical draughtsman, painter, writer and actor Beresford Egan - who was highly influenced by Aubrey Beardsley - was perhaps the defining British exponent of art deco. He launched his career with The Sink of Solitude (two copies in this lot), a satire on the banning of Radclyffe Hall's controversial lesbian novel The Well Of Loneliness (1928).