Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

15 c SIMEON SOLOMON (1840-1905) A Vision of Love, Revealed. Photogravure frontispiece by Frederick Holyer. [iii], 37 pages. 8vo, publisher’s gilt-pictorial cloth by Burn & Co., with their ticket, light blistering, extremities rubbed, joints starting; front free endpaper excised, scattered foxing and toning, mostly to preliminaries. Bookplate of Loÿse Knowles. London: Printed for the author, to be had also of F.S. Ellis, 1871. [4,000/6,000] The rare landmark work of the Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist painter Solomon, “A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep” is a prose-poem allegory utilizing themes from Jewish and Christian mysticism to express erotic desire between men as aesthetically and morally acceptable. In recent decades it has come to be recognized as a pioneering work in the annals of gay literature. Many of Solomon’s friends distanced themselves following his arrest in 1873 for indecent behavior in a public lavatory, which proved ruinous to his career. 16 c JOHNMORAY STUART-YOUNG (1881–1939) An Urning’s Love (Being a Poetic Study of Morbidity), Osrac, the Self-Sufficient and Other Poems. 9 photogravure plates, mostly portraits of Stuart-Young and Oscar Wilde, and Alfred Douglas. Printed in red, green, and black. Publisher’s gilt-pictorial vellum with daffodil design on front cover, slightly bowed, some natural discoloration; all edges trimmed and gilt, binder’s placement notes in red ink on each plate, some splitting on rear pastedown from bowing. London: Hermes Press, 1905. [1,500/2,500] number 40 of only 50 copies of the limited signed first edition and dated March 3, 1906. Stuart-Young was a poet and African trader who yearned for literary fame and claimed to have had a relationship with Oscar Wilde. This work is a fantastical record of the friendship, including falsified letters, and Stuart-Young’s own poetry. 15 16