The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. As pleasingly exemplified in many instances, wherein the serious ones of this earth, carefully exasperated, have been prettily spurred on to unseemliness and indiscretion, while overcome by an undue sense of right
Published by London: William Heinemann, 1890
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Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United KingdomBow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB)
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First edition. 8vo. (xvi), 292 pp. Publisher's yellow cloth backed boards, lettered to the spine and upper cover. Foxing to the front and rear, repair to the head of the upper joint, rubbing to the boards. An account of Whistler's libel suit against John Ruskin, the critic having savagely reviewed the painting "Nocturne" - "I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." The trial damaged both men, although Whistler won he was awarded only a farthing and the costs bankrupted him, while Ruskin's authority as the leading critic of his time was fatally wounded.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. As pleasingly exemplified in many instances, wherein the serious ones of this earth, carefully exasperated, have been prettily spurred on to unseemliness and indiscretion, while overcome by an undue sense of right
- Author
- WHISTLER, J. McNeill
- Publisher
- London: William Heinemann
- Publication year
- 1890
- Seller catalogs
- Art
Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB)
Lewes, United Kingdom
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| First item | US$ 29.43 | US$ 29.43 |
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Store description
Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association…
Specialty
Literature, Topography & Travel, Maps & Atlases, Geology, Fine Bindings & Fore Edge Paintings, General Antiquarian, Science, Natural History, Sussex, BloomsburyAssociation member
Seller's business information
Bow Windows Bookshop Ltd.
175 High Street
Lewes, United Kingdom BN7 1YE
Terms of sale
We can accept payment by Mastercard, Visa and Sterling cheques, as well as by bank transfer. Please make cheques payable to Bow Windows Bookshop Ltd. All books must be prepaid before sending, unless you are already known to us. All books are returnable for a full refund if found not to be as described. Postage will be charged at cost and will automatically include full insurance cover. Please note that international deliveries may be subject to import duties, taxes, and fees that are beyond our control and these are not included in any delivery charges. Customs procedures may also cause delivery delays.
Bow Windows Bookshop Ltd., registered in England and Wales, company no. 7290146. Registered office: 1 West Street, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 2NZ.
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