First edition, first issue, bound in illustrated tan wrappers; only the first batch of copies was bound in wrappers, remaining copies were bound in the familiar cloth binding of the Keynote series.

Title-page and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley; see W.V. Harris, "John Lane's Keynote Series and the Fiction of the 1890s," PMLA 83, No. 5 (Oct., 1968), pages 1407-1413

The sixteen pages at end contain publisher's advertisements.

Rare Book copy (B812B769 S4 1893 copy 2): From the library of Roger Senhouse (1899-1970), with his autograph, bookplate, and manuscript note on front free endpaper.

Krishnamurti, G. Eighteen-nineties, entry 102

Krishnamurti, G. Women writers of the 1890s, p. 39

Nelson, J.G. Checklist of early Bodley Head books, 1893.28

Nelson, J.G. Early nineties, 74

Sadleir, M. XIX century fiction, 3748 [1]

Samuels Lasner, M. Selective checklist of the published work of Aubrey Beardsley, entry 25

Wolff, R.L. Nineteenth century fiction, entry 2049a

Gift; Frederick Coykendall.

Gift; James G. Nelson; 2016.

Gift; James G. Nelson; 2010.