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WHISTLER, REX. The Masque. No.7. Designs for the Theatre by Rex Whistler. Part Three. With an introduction by Laurence Whistler. London. The Curtain Press. 1948
Very Good Whistler, Rex.

Covers with a design by Rex Whistler, 4 colour plates and 18 monochrome illustrations. With a list of Whistler productions. First Edition Printed Wrapper 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

[SW: Rex Whistler. Modern British Art. Theatre Design.]

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Lee, B.N. ; Whistler, R. The Bookplate Designs of Rex Whistler. Private Libraries Association for the Bookplate Society, Pinner, first edition, 1973.
Limited edition of 1000 copies, this being one of 350 with a tipped-in frontispiece. Contents include: The bookplate designs of Rex Whistler; List of bookplates; List of complete designs and preliminary sketches for bookplates; The plates. From the introduction: "A study of Rex Whistler's bookplates reveals what is surely a most fascinating feature of his excursions into this branch of graphic art: like Hogarth, Bewick and Blake he was an artist who made bookplate designs for his friends. Many of them are, therefore, both personal and intimate. Moreover, since the bookplate is of its very nature a personal mark, they stand above the work of almost all other modem artists in this respect. Each small feature of many of the plates has a story to tell, and for this reason the bookplates will be described individually and the choice of subject in individual plates will be discussed. There are eighteen bookplates in all, and they were designed over a period of about sixteen years. They were reproduced by various methods: half-tone, line-block, collotype or engraving. The engraved plates were worked by Robert Osmund or George Taylor Friend, both excellent craftsmen who gave of their best in their engravings of Rex Whisder's designs, but it is impossible with the graver to render the delicacy of the original drawings."

Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm, slipcased, 3-41 pp, 41 leaves of plates, facs. Fine in used slipcase. 0900002425

[SW: WHISTLER, R.wykbooks 10378 Bookplates, English. Whistler, Rex, 1905-1944.Lee, Brian North;Whistler, Rex; Bookplate Society (Great Britain)]

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PENNELL, E.R. & J. THE WHISTLER JOURNAL Illustrated, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1921.
Brown paper boards over mustard color cloth. Stamped gilt title to front board, gilt title and author to spine. Few pale stains to front board, small scuff mark, spine ends bumped and rubbed. Rubbing of extremities, with chipping of paper to front board edge. Rear hinge cracked. No writing or inscriptions. Clean bright text and illustrations. sm 8 vo., v-xxi, 339 pp. In protective archival clear wraps.

First edition The life story of James McNeill Whistler during the three years he lived with the Pennell's, and the sixty six years of his life he related to the Pennell's, of his troubled however, successful career. Profusely illustrated with over 200 reproduced portraits, etchings, sketches, photographs, wood- blocks, private collections and museums. Detailing, his American years; his life and studies in Paris; his friends, enemies; the Leyland's, their circle, the Peacock Room; The Greaves; Jo and Maud; life in England, Chelsea to Hague; his travels; failing health; papers in the Whistler - Ruskin Libel case, etc. Whistler James McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903, Lowell, Ma., Painter, Graphic artist. Whistler studied art in Paris, at Ecole Imperiale from 1855-1859, the rest of most his life was spent in London. He achieved his first commercial success as an etcher, producing fine prints of working class people in rural France an London. His early works were highly influenced by 17th century Dutch and Spanish works, and by the realist painter Gustave Courbet. By mid 1800's he became very devoted to the influences of Japanese prints, Asian and Objects de Art.. 1/4 cloth Very Good

[SW: Journal of Whistler first Edition, Pennell on Whistler, etchings of Whistler Whistleriana, Whistler vs Ruskin, James Whistler and Joseph Pennell, Portraits of Whistler, Peacock Room Whistler, Whistler in Paris William Heinemann and Whistler, Tinnie Greaves, Frederick Leyland and Whistler Memoirs James Whistler Memoir, Art, First Edition]

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WHISTLER, J. McNEILL. The Little Pool. London. Ellis and Green. 1871
Very Good. Whistler, J. McNeill.

The Little Pool (Kennedy 74) Printed in black ink on fine cream laid paper with 'BLAUW' watermarked paper, indicating that it is from the 1871 published edition. The plate is known to have been destroyed (see Kennedy ). Signed in the plate. The etching is in very good condition but with slight remnants of old glue on reverse and one tiny fox mark. Image size 103 x 127mm Page Size 128 x 151mm (The man sketching is Percy Thomas and the man standing is Sergeant Thomas.) Whistler moved from Paris to London in 1859. Encouraged by the success of the 'French Set' of etchings Whistler began a new series. He drew upon his environment for inspiration. At the time, Whistler lived among the dockworkers and labourers of Rotherhithe and Wapping. His resulting etchings are full of carefully detailed wharf scenes, stressing the grimy industrial aspect of the riverfront, such as factories, shipping and warehousing. He included the prostitutes, sailors and longshoremen he observed in the taverns and wharfs of Wapping and Chelsea. They formed a visual response to Mayhew's observations on working class life in London. Although Whistler exaggerated human character and embraced the grotesque when he depicted people, his work constantly romanticizes the squalid and seedy side of the city. He had made all but one of his Thames set of prints by 1861, though they were not formally published until later, and Whister always thought of them as a set. The Royal Academy exhibited some of them in 1859 and continued to do so until 1864. The complete set titled Sixteen Etchings or Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects." The Thames Set was published by Ellis and Green in 1871. Whistler was established at the forefront of the etching revival Signed by Author(s) First Edition. No Jacket Single Sheet.

[SW: ORIGINAL ETCHING. WHISTLER. JAMES MCNEIL MODERN BRITISH ART. AMERICANOriginal Prints]

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