MORICE, Charles (1861-1919). Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1919, 4to, plates, later red cloth, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by Anthony Eden. With 3 other related books. (4)

MORICE, Charles (1861-1919).  Paul Gauguin. Paris: H. Floury, 1919. 4to (265 x 200mm). Half title, heliogravure portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé by Gauguin at p.82, plates, some mounted. Later red cloth, spine with white suede lettering-piece, original upper pictorial wrapper bound in at the end, new endpapers. Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY ANTHONY EDEN on the front free endpaper, "This book was bought by me about 1920 (bound 1920). About this first date my brother and I attempted to club together to buy, I think, 'Nevermore', but we could not raise the money, £2000. A. April, 1963." Gaugin's painting 'Nevermore' is illustrated on p.198 of the book and here. With 3 other books of related interest, namely Ludwig Goldscheider's El Greco (London, 1949, 4to, plates, some coloured and mounted, original cloth, second edition, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "To Clarissa Churchill with kindest regards, London, 29 June, 1951, Ludwig Goldscheider"), Bernard Berenson's The Italian Painters of the Renaissance (London, 1952, 4to, plates and illustrations, some coloured and mounted, original hessian boards, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper, "For Clarissa and Anthony from Cl. C [possibly Clementine Churchill], Christmas 1952") and André Grabar's La Peinture Byzantine (Geneva, 1953, 4to, mounted coloured plates and illustrations, original green cloth, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper, "Anthony Eden, for the London Conference, from Clarissa, Paris, October 1954"). (4)