Observations

London: Heinemann, 1926. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine darkened with ends slightly frayed, other small wear marks. 4to. Fifty-one caricatures reproduced in black and white, with a color frontispiece, mounted on heavy gray paper; with the additional plate (autographed "Max") in pocket at rear cover as issued. With a long prose dedication to Edmund Gosse. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. First edition, one of 280 copies numbered and signed by Beerbohm (this is no. 221). In this copy beneath his signature on the limitation page, Max has written the date "October 1925." Below the date (and within a circle with an arrow pointing upwards to it) Max has inscribed: "No extra charge for adding the date to this copy. It was done for sake of variety. M. B." Gallatin & Oliver 24a. (BA).