Bits of Old Chelsea:
JOHNSON, Lionel Pigott, & Richard Le Gallienne (1894)
£5200.00 [First Edition]
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A Series of Forty-One Etchings by Walter W. Burgess. Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter- Etchers. With Letterpress Description by Lionel Johnson and Richard Le Gallienne. First edition, one of 110 copies, 100 of which are for sale. Folio, 44 x 30 cm. Original red cloth lettered in gilt. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.,
Unusually for such a book, each of the etchings is signed in pencil by the artist, which can only have accelerated its breaking into individual plates.
Binding quite badly faded, small stain on upper cover, corners bumped.
Stock Code: 237351
