Estimate: | £300 - £500 |
Hammer price: | £200 |
WYLLIE, William Lionel (1851-1931, artist). London to the Nore Painted and Described. London: A. and C. Black, 1905. 4to (268 x 208mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece and 59 plates by W. L. Wyllie (some mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original pictorial buckram gilt (corners rubbed, some light staining). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 238 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. With Martin Conway's The Alps (London, 1904, coloured plates by A. D. McCormick, NUMBER 277 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER A. & C. BLACK), Mortimer Menpes' Whistler As I Knew Him (London, 1904, etched frontispiece and plates by Whistler, NUMBER 231 OF 231 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR), Dorothy Menpes' Brittany (London, 1905, plates by Mortimer Menpes, NUMBER 139 OF 350 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST) and H. M. Cundall's Birket Foster (London, 1906, etched frontispiece and plates by Birket Foster, NUMBER 337 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER), the last four bound in modern calf. (5)