The Eighteen Nineties: A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Jackson, Holbrook - 1925

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photographs. Original quarter beige cloth on decorated paper boards with title label. Perhaps the best study of the Eighteen Nineties ever written, by a critic who was a contemporary collector and enthusiast, who saw the Nineties as far from the decadent decade castigated by max Nordau and others but as a creative, sane and healthy expression of vitality and a rebirth of the arts. Book is clean, fine and unmarked. Slipcase has rubbing at tips of opening, else is better than very good, bright, clean and free of tears or chips. A handsome copy, scarce in a slipcase this fine.