Published Date:

Printed in 1913. Bound & published in 1928.

Publisher:

Edward W. Titus at the sign of the black Manikin.

Printer:

The Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London

Published At:

4 Rue Delambre, Montparnasse, Paris, France / Great Britain.

Pages:

xi + 147 + errata sheet + 4 pages advertisements + 12 copper plate engravings.

Price:

Offered for sale in France, England and America at a pre-publication price of 125 francs, One Guinea or $5.00 respectively.

Edition:

1,000 copies printed on Abbey Mills Greenfield paper.

800 of these copies were bound in cloth covered boards with a felt spine.

State (a):

Three copies are known to have been bound with the Wieland & Co. title page.

State (b):

Bound in gray cloth-covered boards with a brown felt spine. The upper cover has a brown felt label affixed, lettered in black.

State (c):

Bound in a brown cloth-covered boards with a tan felt spine. The upper cover has a tan felt label affixed, lettered in black.

Download Text As:

Text

   - View Text

Contents

 All states

- The Stranger

- The Despair of the Old Woman

- The Artist’s Confession

- The Double Room

- Everyone has His Chimera

- The Court Fool and the Venus

- The Dog and the Flask

- The Bad Glazier

- One O’Clock in the Morning

- The Wild Woman and the Spoilt Darling

- Crowds

- Widows

- The Old Mountebank

- The Cake

- The Clock

- A World in a Mane

- Will You Come with Me?

- The Poor Man’s Toy

- The Fairy Gifts

- The Temptations; or Love, Riches and Glory

- The Twilight of Even

- Solitude

- Plans

- Beautiful Dorothy

- Poor Folks’ Eyes

- An Heroic Death

- Base Coinage

- The Generous Gamester

- The Rope

- The Joys of the Soul

- The Thyrsus

- Intoxicate Yourself

- Already!

- Windows

- The Desire of Painting

- The Moon’s Gift

- Which is the True One?

- Thoroughbred

- The Mirror

- The Harbor

- Portraits of Mistresses

- The Polite Gunner

- The Soup and the Clouds

- The Cemetery and the Shooting-Gallery

- A lost Halo

- Miss Bistouri

- Anywhere, Anywhere Out of the World

- Death to the Poor!

- In Praise of Good Dogs

- Epilogue