Mr. whistler's "ten o'clock".
London.
[Chatto and Windus], 1888.
First edition.
29pp, [3].
[Bound with:] WHISTLER, J. A. MacNeill. Whistler v. Ruskin: art & art critics. London. Chatto & Windus, [1878]. Sixth edition. 17pp, [1].
[And:] WHISTLER, James A. McNeill. Wilde v Whistler: an acrimonious correspondence on art between Oscar Wilde and James A McNeill Whistler. London. Privately printed, 1906. First edition. 20pp.
Small quarto. Recent brown cloth-backed drab paper boards, lettered in gilt, original publisher's drab paper wrappers for all three works bound in, housed in recent custom marbled paper slipcase. Very slight rubbing to extremities. Reproduction photographs of Whistler pasted to recent blank fly-leaves, some chipping and marking to wrappers, else internally clean and crisp.
[Bound with:] WHISTLER, J. A. MacNeill. Whistler v. Ruskin: art & art critics. London. Chatto & Windus, [1878]. Sixth edition. 17pp, [1].
[And:] WHISTLER, James A. McNeill. Wilde v Whistler: an acrimonious correspondence on art between Oscar Wilde and James A McNeill Whistler. London. Privately printed, 1906. First edition. 20pp.
Small quarto. Recent brown cloth-backed drab paper boards, lettered in gilt, original publisher's drab paper wrappers for all three works bound in, housed in recent custom marbled paper slipcase. Very slight rubbing to extremities. Reproduction photographs of Whistler pasted to recent blank fly-leaves, some chipping and marking to wrappers, else internally clean and crisp.
Three pamphlets by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903); the first a lecture on aesthetic theory delivered on 10th February 1885 at the exceptional time of ten o'clock; the second an account of the artist's libel suit against critic John Ruskin; the third a record of the debate between Whistler and Oscar Wilde regarding notions of aesthetics resulting from the aforementioned ten o'clock lecture.
£ 450.00
Antiquates Ref: 18647
