EDWIN AUSTIN ABBEY, Royal Academician, The Record of His Life and Work.
New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons: Methuen and Company, 1921.
Limited to 50 copies with an original drawing (statement signed Charles Scribner's Sons). Two volumes. Quarto. xiii, 2678; ix, 269-518p. Printed for Mary Gertrude Abbey at the Arden Press by W, H, Smith & Son, London. Portrait frontispiece by J. S. Sargent and portrait frontispiece by W. Q. Orchardson. With hundreds of illustrations by photogravure, collotype, photographic reproductions from blocks, and a few printed from original blocks used by Harper's Magazine. Bound by Bennett in full tan crushed morocco, t.e.g., the spines gilt-titled with fancy panel ornaments, the covers with a series of four fillet borders with corner pieces, fancy dentelles, doublures of blue morocco and watered silk flyleaves. Fine in divided slipcase. Item #24134
The original drawing in this set is a page of portrait sketches in ink and pencil.
This set said to be from the library of Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003).
Price: $2,500.00