The portraits are of Whistler (by Joseph Simpson), John M. Synge (by Jack B. Yeats), Max Beerbohm (by Claud Lovat Fraser), Walt Whitman (by Edward Gordon Craig) and a Russian Dancer (by Jo Davidson).

First edition; 8vo; frontispiece and 4 plates, 2pp. advertisements, browning to half-title, some minor spotting, a few pages with some tears where opened clumsily; publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, spine slightly sunned, t.e.g., others uncut.