Alastair - Arrow, Simon (pseudonym of Ronald Firbank). Count Fanny's Nuptials: Being The Story of a Courtship. (London), Johnstone, (1907).
26,5 : 20 cm. 68 pages, 2 leaves. with 7 full-page illustrations by Alastair. Dark blue original cloth, title printed in gold on spine.
One of the rarest illustrated books by Alastair in the style of Aubrey Beardsley. A wicked parody on Aubrey Beardsley's only erotic-prose fragment 'Venus und Tannhäuser' or 'Under the Hill. Privatly printed. The authorship is not clear but most likely it is Ronald Firbank. Also the plates are not signed, they are most likely by Alstair.
Euro450
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