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Marbled wrappers, printed paper label. Covers slightly rubbed at top edge. Edition limited to 75 numbered copies. Four years earlier the Tragara Press had printed Oscar Wilde's Letters to Graham Hill in an edition of 26 copies for George Sims. Jeremy Mason, having (presumably) purchased the Wilde-Hill letters from Sims, adds context and illustration, contributing a biographical introduction, written with the help of Graham Hill's grandson the artist Anthony Hill. Graham Hill (né John James Hill, 1868-1937) was, as J. Graham Hill, author of a volume of poems, Under Her Window (1888); he became dramatic critic of the Daily Mail and made his own contributions to the theatre with such works as Lusette: a tragic opera (with Albert Frederick Calvert, 1895), Guinevere: a tragedy (1906), Havana: a musical comedy (with George Grossmith Jnr, 1908) and The Queen's Champion (with Hubert Ericsen, 1914). Born in Hackney, the son of a grocer, he married Minnie Lloyd (Emma Matilda Lloyd, 1865-1949), an ironmonger's daughter, at St Martin-in-the-Fields in 1891; they had two sons, Cedric Lloyd Graham Hill (1893-1916), killed on the Somme, and Adrian Keith Graham Hill (1895-1977), an Official War Artist in the First World War and a pioneer of art therapy. Seller Inventory # E100174
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