8vo. ix, [1], 123pp, [3]. Title page in red and black. With a half- title. Original publisher's cloth-backed printed paper boards. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Inked ownership inscription of H.P. Addleshaw to head of FFEP, endpapers browned, occasional light spotting.

The first edition, one of just 400 copies, of a collection of poetry published under the pseudonym of Michael Field. This name was used by authors Katharine Harris Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Emma Cooper (1862- 1913) who collaborated and cohabited for forty years as lesbian lovers. The couple, who had close connections to numerous fellow Aestheticists, poets and painters, were heavily inspired by the works of Sappho, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde. With their incestuous relationship revealed after their deaths, the two women occupy a strange place in the corpus of Victorian literature, with poetry that portrays a deeply codependent, devoted and discomfiting relationship.