THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE BUTTERFLY. May - October 1893.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author Walter Lewis Emanuel to the illustrator Sidney Sime. Original beige cloth with titles in gilt to the spine and upper board, the boards decorated in gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white throughout by various artists. A good copy, the binding firm although split to the cloth at the rear hinge, the spine somewhat rolled. The contents, with cracking to the inner gutter (the webbing exposed), and some spotting to the early and late pages and occasionally throughout, are otherwise clean and, save for Emanuel's inscription to Sime, free from stamps and inscriptions. An interesting presentation copy.

With a gift inscription on the front free endpaper from the writer and humorist Walter Lewis Emanuel to the illustrator Sidney Sime. Emanuel was later published in 'The Butterfly' as well as 'Punch', and is known for his humorous dog books, some of which were illustrated by Cecil Aldin. Sime was also later published in 'The Butterfly', and he illustrated a number of Emanuel's pieces that were published in 'The Idler'. The first six issues in one volume of 'The Butterfly', an art and literature periodical edited by L. Raven-Hill and Arnold Golsworthy featuring paintings, drawings, verse and prose, much of which has a decidedly humorous leaning. It ran from 1893-1894 and again from 1899-1900.