London Types. Quatorzains by W. E. Henley

NICHOLSON, William / W. E. Henley

Published by R.H. Russell, N.Y. / Wiliam Heinemann, 1898, 1898

About this Item

With 13 full page illustrations (including the cover illustration of "The Bus-Driver") lithographed in colors, after woodcuts by William Nicholson; 12 plates printed from original woodcuts by William Nicholson; text by W. E. Henley; edition size is unknown, it is not signed; large quarto size:13-1/2 x 11-1/3 in.; with original cloth-backed pictorial boards, the upper cover blocked with a design in red and black after Nicholson, the lower cover blocked with a the publisher's mark; first American edition of Nicholson and Henley's important and popular work. "William Nicholson, with his brother-in-law James Pryde, produced posters that were a revelation to late 19th-century London. Nicholson went on to adapt his dramatic woodblock style to book illustration, publishing a series of highly successful works (the best known being An Alphabet; London Types; An Almanac of Twelve Sports) before turning to painting full-time with the encouragement of J.McN. Whistler. In the present work, in a striking series of images, Nicholson deftly captures the individual character of fin-de-siecle London 'types.' His selection starts with the bus driver on the cover, and continues inside with the guardsman, the hawker, the beef- eater, the sandwich-man, the coster, the lady, the bluecoat boy, the policeman, the news-boy, the drum-major, the flower girl and the, barmaid. CONDITION of book & plates: some rubbing at the edges of some of the plates; lots of rubbing and marks to the front & back boards; most of the spine is gone and has tears, otherwise interior plates in VERY GOOD COND. Seller Inventory # 7257

Bibliographic Details

Title: London Types. Quatorzains by W. E. Henley

Publisher: R.H. Russell, N.Y. / Wiliam Heinemann, 1898

Publication Date: 1898

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good