SIMPLICITY. Volume III in Pierrot's Library.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original beige cloth with illustration after a design by Aubrey Beardsley to the upper and lower boards and spine, titles in green to the spine. Endpapers and title page illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. Sixteen page (unopened) publisher's catalogue to the rear. A very good copy, the binding square with some rubbing corners and at the tips of the mildly toned spine. The contents, with an ink stamp to the copyright page and the occasional finger mark to the margins are otherwise clean throughout. Scarce.

Issued as volume three [of four] in John Lane's Pierrot's Library series. 'A young woman who has been separated from her biological family since childhood is reunited and must become accustomed to the strange ways of family life'.