Queer Victorian Lit by "Michael Fields"
Updated September 24, 2026
| Lot number | 42 |
| Estimate | 400.00 - 600.00 USD |
| Category | Antiques & Furniture |
| Auction | Fall Rare Books, Manuscripts, Historical Prints, & Ephemera |
| Date | October 8, 2026 at 10:30 AM EDT |
| Auction house | Quinn's Auction Galleries |
| Location | Falls Church, Virginia |
FIELD, MICHAEL [Pseudonym of KATHERINE BRADLEY AND EDITH EMMA COOPER]. London: George Bell and Sons, 1889. 12mo. Frontispiece engraving of Sappho. [8], 132, [1] pp. Printed in red and black. Publisher's full vellum lettered in gilt, medallion portrait of Sappho in gilt on upper cover. Limited edition, no. 6 of 100 copies of this rarity of queer Victorian literature by Bradley and Cooper, who published verse and dramatic plays under the male pseudonym "Michael Field." We trace no copies at auction in the past 75 years. See Haines, Leslie A. "Michael Field’s Transgressively Androgynous Lesbian Lyrics from Long Ago." CEA Critic 84, no. 3 (2022): 221-227. Condition: A few spots and toning to endpapers, boards slightly bowed with some trace soiling, otherwise near fine.
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