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Album of designs, proofs etc. for 'The New
Album of designs, proofs etc. for 'The New
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(Rex, artist ) Album of designs, proofs etc. for 'The New Forget-Me-Not. A Calendar', comprising: pencil sketch for dust-jacket with list of illustrations in ink on verso, c.260 x 210mm .; proof of upper panel and spine of dust-jacket with list of recipients "1.Me 2.M[other] 3.Sir Courtauld [Thomson] 4.Mr Shaw 5.Sir Frank Swettenham 6.Edith 7.Stephen 8.Laurie" in pencil on verso; sheet of pencil sketches for head-pieces with final list of contributors in carbon typescript on verso and a pencil portrait, c.260 x 205mm .; watercolour sketches of flowerpots and watering cans for binding patterned-paper , c.290 x 100mm., spotted and creased, lower left corner torn away not affecting drawings ; manuscript bill in ink for the illustrations made out to R.Cobden-Sanderson "All finished & payed for on June 18th 1929", with envelope ; proofs of the plates namely 4 proofs of the 4 plates of the seasons, each one hand-coloured and with detailed annotations in ink by the artist as to the colour printing , some light marginal spotting and soiling, additional colour proof of 'Autumn' with pencil note on colouring in margin, 3 colour proofs of unused designs of 'Spring', 'Summer' & 'Autumn', and sheet of the four designs without colour, with envelope ; prospectus; and a copy of the book, number 329 of 360 copies signed by the artist, pictorial presentation leaf, 4 colour plates of the seasons and black & white illustrations by Whistler, errata slip, with receipt from the publishers for copyright fee signed by Lord Thomson loosely inserted, original half blue-stained vellum over patterned-paper boards of flowerpots, watering cans and inkwells designed by Whistler, uncut, spine faded, pictorial dust-jacket, a little rubbed and soiled, Cobden-Sanderson, 1929, all but the book tipped in or loosely inserted in half morocco album of blank leaves, spine gilt with blue morocco labels, spine faded, [Whistler & Fuller 419], folio & 8vo (2)
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Album of designs, proofs etc. for 'The New

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