YERKES COLLECTION - Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of Charles T. Yerkes, Boston, 1904, 2 volumes, 4to, plates, FINELY BOUND IN MOROCCO. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 215 OF 250 COPIES. With a small quantity of miscellaneous books. (qty)

YERKES COLLECTION - Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of Charles T. Yerkes Esq., New York. [Boston: A. W. Elson & Co.], 1904. 2 volumes, large 4to (360m x 265mm). Half titles, photogravure frontispiece portrait of Charles T. Yerkes, 200 photogravure plates (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). FINELY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY FULL STRAIGHT-GRAINED BLACK MOROCCO GILT, the covers with central Charles T. Yerkes' monogram within gilt-fillet borders with foliate cornerpieces, spines gilt in six compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut (some light rubbing and scuffing, extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 215 OF 250 COPIES. With a small quantity of art reference and miscellaneous books including Charles Morgan's Epitaph on George Moore (London, 1935, 8vo, plate of "Saturday Evening at the Vale" by Henry Tonks, original buckram-backed marbled paper boards, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "To Henry Tonks, in grateful recollection of other evenings at the Vale, from the author, Charles Morgan, November 22, 1935," with a further 2-page autograph letter from the author to Henry Tonks, with the same date as the presentation inscription, written in pencil from his sick-bed, concluding, "Here is the little book on G.M., published to-day. My big novel is finished, too [almost certainly Sparkenbroke, published in 1936], + the typescript is having its final revision. Yours very sincerely, Charles Morgan. Forgive my bedridden pencil." (qty)