Symonds (John Addington, 1840-1893). Poet, author, literary critic and early pioneer for gay rights. Autograph Sentiment Signed with initials, in blue ink on a strip of off-white paper, 'Very sincerely yrs. JAS. / "In the Key of Blue" not out yet!', 45 x 165 mm, matted beneath an original vintage unsigned photograph of Symonds seated on a chair the wrong way round, reading a book and smoking a pipe, 16 x 11.5 cm, framed and glazed, 38 x 30 cm overall, together with a copy of a book from Symonds's library, 'Barfukele' and ' Schakkastlein des Gevattersmanns' by Berthold Auerbach, 3 volumes in 1 as issued, Stuttgart, 1862, some spotting, Symonds's pencil ownership signature, date and place, 'Bern, June 29 1888' to half-title of first work, original cloth with gilt decorative spine, a little rubbed, small 8vo (Quantity: 2) In the Key of Blue was a collection of essays written in 1893, one of which 'Clifton and a Lad's Love' recollected Symonds's time as a boy in Bristol.
Symonds (John Addington, 1840-1893). Poet, author, literary critic and early pioneer for gay rights. Autograph Sentiment Signed with initials, in blue ink on a strip of off-white paper, 'Very sincerely yrs. JAS. / "In the Key of Blue" not out yet!', 45 x 165 mm, matted beneath an original vintage unsigned photograph of Symonds seated on a chair the wrong way round, reading a book and smoking a pipe, 16 x 11.5 cm, framed and glazed, 38 x 30 cm overall, together with a copy of a book from Symonds's library, 'Barfukele' and ' Schakkastlein des Gevattersmanns' by Berthold Auerbach, 3 volumes in 1 as issued, Stuttgart, 1862, some spotting, Symonds's pencil ownership signature, date and place, 'Bern, June 29 1888' to half-title of first work, original cloth with gilt decorative spine, a little rubbed, small 8vo (Quantity: 2) In the Key of Blue was a collection of essays written in 1893, one of which 'Clifton and a Lad's Love' recollected Symonds's time as a boy in Bristol.
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