first edition, first issue with map in pocket at end, 21 plates by Rex Whistler and Mary Forster-Knight (14 by Whistler) and 19 head- & tail-pieces by Whistler, one hand-coloured, folding map in pocket, advertisement leaf at end, front free endpaper browned, original yellow cloth with lettering and decoration in brown, dust-jacket featuring the colour plate, spotted and soiled, rather frayed at edges with some loss, preserved in cloth portfolio, 8vo, John Lane, 1925; with the original pen and ink drawings by Whistler for the 19 head- and tail-pieces for the book, 20 drawings on 13 sheets (one of building with minarets unused), 3 signed with initials, most annotated with page or chapter nos. in pencil, each sheet tipped into aperture mount, mounts c.335 x 265mm., 1924-25; additional pen and ink sketch for the plate 'A Breach of Promise', c.270 x 150mm., note by Laurence Whistler at head, with pen and ink sketch of Pinner Wood House in Middlesex (much-loved home of the Whistler family 1923-24) on verso, pencil dates and annotations to both in another hand, 1923-24, drawings together in cloth portfolio; proofs of the plates and illustrations including the unused one, plates with printed captions pasted below, margins a little soiled, loose in cloth portfolio; press reviews of the book, mostly newspaper cuttings, tipped into volume of blank leaves, modern crimson morocco, 8vo, [c.1925], all together in silk-lined crimson morocco drop-back box with lock and key, one or two small scratches, [Whistler & Fuller 414 but with details of head- & tail-pieces incorrect, omitting head-piece of waterfall and listing but not numbering the final tail-piece] (a box) *** Whistler's first book illustrations. The author, Sir Frank Swettenham, one-time Governor-General and Commander-in chief of the Straits Settlements, wrote several books about the Malay Archipelago but this was the only one in a different setting and his only novel. The North African setting is hardly typical of Whistler's work but it was a start in the commercial art world and the illustrations are accomplished despite his young age. One of the head-pieces depicts a heavily-laden car in snow, the number plate is "RJW 19", the artist's initials and age.
first edition, first issue with map in pocket at end, 21 plates by Rex Whistler and Mary Forster-Knight (14 by Whistler) and 19 head- & tail-pieces by Whistler, one hand-coloured, folding map in pocket, advertisement leaf at end, front free endpaper browned, original yellow cloth with lettering and decoration in brown, dust-jacket featuring the colour plate, spotted and soiled, rather frayed at edges with some loss, preserved in cloth portfolio, 8vo, John Lane, 1925; with the original pen and ink drawings by Whistler for the 19 head- and tail-pieces for the book, 20 drawings on 13 sheets (one of building with minarets unused), 3 signed with initials, most annotated with page or chapter nos. in pencil, each sheet tipped into aperture mount, mounts c.335 x 265mm., 1924-25; additional pen and ink sketch for the plate 'A Breach of Promise', c.270 x 150mm., note by Laurence Whistler at head, with pen and ink sketch of Pinner Wood House in Middlesex (much-loved home of the Whistler family 1923-24) on verso, pencil dates and annotations to both in another hand, 1923-24, drawings together in cloth portfolio; proofs of the plates and illustrations including the unused one, plates with printed captions pasted below, margins a little soiled, loose in cloth portfolio; press reviews of the book, mostly newspaper cuttings, tipped into volume of blank leaves, modern crimson morocco, 8vo, [c.1925], all together in silk-lined crimson morocco drop-back box with lock and key, one or two small scratches, [Whistler & Fuller 414 but with details of head- & tail-pieces incorrect, omitting head-piece of waterfall and listing but not numbering the final tail-piece] (a box) *** Whistler's first book illustrations. The author, Sir Frank Swettenham, one-time Governor-General and Commander-in chief of the Straits Settlements, wrote several books about the Malay Archipelago but this was the only one in a different setting and his only novel. The North African setting is hardly typical of Whistler's work but it was a start in the commercial art world and the illustrations are accomplished despite his young age. One of the head-pieces depicts a heavily-laden car in snow, the number plate is "RJW 19", the artist's initials and age.
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