The First Series of the Dome: A Quarterly Containing Examples of All the Arts (Nos. 1-5)

The first five issues of the Aesthetic literary magazine bound in one volumes, including Elgar sheet-music, tales by Yeats and colour prints. The First Series of the Dome: A Quarterly Containing Examples of All the Arts, the five first issues of the acclaimed literary magazine, edited by publisher of the Unicorn Press Ernest J. Oldmeadow. Reprinted into one volume. Published from 1897-1898. In the publisher's original cloth, with pictorial end papers. Considered among the last literary magazines of the Aesthetic movement, Oldmeadow brought together the leading writers and artists of the period to produce beautiful works which could be consumed by avante garde audeinces at the original price of one shilling for an issue. The magazine was special for championing music and theatre as well as short stories, art, and literary criticism, being an early champion of Edward Elgar. - I. Including Louis Barsac and Annie Dawson. Contains all nine full-page illustrations, including a pencil drawing by H.W Brewer, and a photogravure plate by Frank Mura. Collated complete (1897). - II. Including Laurence Housman and W.B. Yeats. Contains all nine full-page illustrations, including an engraving by Durer and a painting by Rosetti. Collated complete (1897). - III. Including music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Contains all eleven full-page illustrations, including a colour print by Hiroshige and a drawing by Guthrie. Collated complete (1897). - IV. Including Lauence Binyon and music by Elgar. Contains all ten full-page illustrations, including a colour print by Hiroshige and a drawing by Guthrie. Collated complete (1898). - V. Including Arthur Symons and Fiona Macleod. Contains all twelve full-page illustrations, including an etching by Meryon and a woodcut by Burgkamir. Collated complete (1898). In the publisher's original cloth, with pictorial end papers. Externally, mostly smart, with the odd faint mark to boards. Browning and fading to spine. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. Slight browning to pictorial end papers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with minor age toning to leaf extremities. Very Good.…