Live auction - Lot 616
London types by William Nicholson. Quatorzains by W.E. Henley.
London, William Heinemann, (November 30th) 1898
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
Large 4to: [10] ff., 12 pl. (1st and last ff. sl. foxing, some offsetting of the plates).
Publ. ill. boards (sl. brown., corners sl. rubbed, pale stain on upper board, 2 lacks of paper to lower board).
2nd impression. Popular edition copy on thick vellum paper, with 13 coloured (incl. upper board) lithographic full page portraits of a "Bus Driver", a "Guardsman", a "Beef-eater", a "Sandwich-Man", a "Lady", a "News-Boy", a "Flower Girl", a "Barmaid"..., each plate with a short text by William Ernest Henley.