The Academy, A Weekly Review of Literature and Life. (6 volumes)

Charles Lewis Hind

London : Williams and Norgate, 1899

[Interesting associated provenance: Allan Wade's copy]  Rare original collection of this turn of the century British literary publication.  6 volume set. Bound in publisher's green cloth, with image of a 18th century academian reading a manuscript on front.  Solid bindings.  Generally clean internally (one of the vols has spotting to the end sheets).  Lithographic Cat bookplate of Allan Wade.  Wade (1881-1955) was a noted actor, director and literary biographer.  Wade had an extensive collections of fugitive pieces from Yeats, James, Conrad, Beerbohm, etc., from anonymous contributions to British periodicals.  He was a friend of Yeats and later went on to publish the standard Yeats biography.  He was working on the letters of Oscar Wilde when he died.    

Includes volumes: LVII, July-Dec 1899, 772 pp.; LVIII, Jan-June 1900, 560 pp.; LIX, July-Dec 1900, 652 pp.; LX, Jan-June 1901, 560 pp.; LXI, July-Dec 1901, 640 pp.; LXII, Jan-June 1902, 640 pp.  

Please note: This is a large set that will require additional postage for international delivery.