Rossetti Beerbohm Max (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ix, 23 plates, each with a tissue containing an explanation of the drawing. A true first edition with all plates and tissue guards present. A very slight bit of wear to the top and bottom of the spine, but a nearly fine copy.

New edition, 1987. Unpaginated 128 pages. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 159 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. ; ISBN: 0810918420; 9780810918429; LCCN: 85-23024 ; OCLC: 12722417 ; white cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: Johann Wolfgang Goethe -- William Blake -- Victor Hugo -- Prosper Mérimée -- George Sand -- Alfred de Musset -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- John Ruskin -- Mikhail Lermontov -- Charlotte Brontë -- Emily Brontë -- Edward Lear -- Charles Baudelaire -- Alexandre Dumas fils -- Henrik Ibsen -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Oscar Wilde -- Arnold Bennett -- Thomas Hardy -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Paul Verlaine -- August Strindberg -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rabindranath Tagore -- O. Henry -- Rudyard Kipling -- George Russell "AE" -- Ernst Barlach -- Max Beerbohm -- G.K. Chesterton -- Sherwood Anderson -- Winston Churchill -- Max Jacob -- John Masefield -- Guillaume Apollinaire -- Vachel Lindsay -- Kahlil Gibran -- T.S. Eliot -- T.E. Lawrence -- D.H. Lawrence -- Wyndham Lewis -- Jean Cocteau -- Henry Miller -- Djuna Barnes -- Pearl Buck -- e.e. cummings -- James Thurber -- André Breton -- John Dos Passos -- William Faulkner -- Hart Crane -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- Federico García Lorca -- James Agee -- Evelyn Waugh -- T.H. White -- James Michener -- Hermann Hesse -- Lawrence Durrell -- Dylan Thomas -- Tennessee Williams -- Allen Ginsberg -- Günter Grass -- Anne Sexton -- John Updike -- Colleen McCullough -- Fernando Del Paso. ; FINE/FINE. Book. …

Condition: Sehr gut. First Edition. Quarto. Frontispiece, IX, [1] pages with 23 tipped-in plates (including the now famous Oscar Wilde - Caricature) with lettered tissue-guards. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. The dustjacket very poor and fragmented but the Volume itself in excellent, firm condition. All colour-plates with tissue-guards in place and in wonderful condition. Excellent association-copy with the personal inscripton by Max Beerbohm to his friend Jack Lynch by incorporating the half-title: "Jack Lynch's copy of [Rossetti and his Circle] from Max - 1923". Rossetti and His Circle is a book of twenty-three caricatures by English caricaturist, essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm. Published in 1922 by William Heinemann, the drawings were Beerbohm's humorous imaginings concerning the life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his fellow Pre-Raphaelites, the period, as he put it, "just before oneself." The book is now considered one of Beerbohm's masterpieces. Beerbohm returned to England from his home in Rapallo in Italy so that he could study photographs of the subjects he depicted in his caricatures. During the winter of 1917 he rented a cottage in the English countryside near the home of his friend William Rothenstein so that he could work on his Rossetti drawings. Every day, carrying his portfolio of drawings with him, Beerbohm walked across the snow to visit Rothenstein. "No wonder Max was nervous of leaving his Rossetti caricatures in an empty cottage. What a remarkable reconstruction of a period!" Rothenstein later wrote. Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood had captured Beerbohm's imagination. "In London, in the great days of a deep, smug, thick, rich, drab, industrial complacency," he wrote, "Rossetti shone, for the men and women who knew him, with the ambiguous light of a red torch somewhere in a dense fog. And so he still shines for me." Beerbohm's caricatures include Dante Gabriel Rossetti with his sister Christina, John Ruskin, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Holman Hunt, John Millais and George Meredith. In plate 22, Oscar Wilde, on his 1882 lecture tour in America, describes the delights of the Aesthetic Movement to a fascinated audience. This tour had been organised by Richard D'Oyly Carte to publicise the new Gilbert and Sullivan opera Patience. Sir Hugh Walpole bequeathed Beerbohm's original watercolour artwork for Rossetti and His Circle to the Tate Collection in London in 1941. A special limited edition of 380 numbered copies bound in white cloth was also published in 1922. These were signed by Beerbohm. (Wikipedia) The tipped-in Colour-Plates in this publication are furnished with lettered tissue-guards. We are listing here each of the Illustrations and the text-accompanying them: I - "D.G.Rossetti, precociously manifesting, among the exiled Patriots who frequented his father's house in Charlotte Street, That Queer Indifference to Politics which marked him in his prime and his decline" II - "British Stock and Alien Inspiration" III - "Rossetti's Courtship - Chatham Place, 1850 - 1860" IV - "A Momentary Vision that once befell Young Millais" V - "The sole Remark Likely to have been made by Benjamin Jowett about the Mural Paintings at The Oxford Union: 'And what were they going to do with the Grail when they found it, Mr.Rossetti ?'" VI - "Spring Cottage, Hampstead, 1860: 'Coventry Patmore very vehemantly preaches to the Rossettis that a Tea-Pot is not worshipful for its Form and Colour, but as a sublime Symbol of Domesticity'" VII: An Introduction - Miss Cornforth : "Oh, very pleased to meet Mr.Ruskin, I'm sure" VIII: "Blue China" [depicting Carlyle and Whistler] IX: "Woolner at Farringford, 1857" - Mrs.Tennyson: "You now, Mr.Woolner, I'm one of the most un-meddlesome of women; but - when (I'm only asking), when do you begin modelling his Halo ?" X: "Ford Madox Brown being patronised by Holman Hunt" XI: "The Small Hours in the Sixties at 16, Cheyne Walk. - Algnernon Reading "Anactoria" to Gabriel and William" XII: "Rossetti, having just had a Fresh Consignment of "Stunning" Fabrics from that new shop in Regent Street, Tries Hard to Prevail on his Younger Sister to Accept at any Rate one of these and have a Dress made of it from Designs to be furnished by Himself" XIII: "Rossetti insistently exhorted by George Meredith to come forth into the Glorious Sun and Wind for a Walk to Hendon and Beyond" XIV: "Mr. William Bell Scott wondering what it is those Fellows seem to see in Gabriel" XV: "Mr.Browning brings a Lady of Rank and Fashion to see Mr.Rossetti" XVI: "Rossetti in his Worldlier Days (Circa 1866-1868) leaving the Arundel Club with George Augustus Sala" XVII: "Riverside Scene - Algernon Swinburne taking his great new friend Gosse to see Gabriel Rossetti" XVIII: "Mr.Morley of Blackburn, on an Afternoon in the Spring of '69, introduces Mr.John Stuart Mill". XIX: "A Man from Hymettus" [depicting Victorian painter Frederic Leighton] XX: "Quis Custodiet Ipsum Custodem ?" [depicting Theodore Watts-Dunton, Frederic Shields and Sir Hall Caine] XXI: "Mr.____ and Miss _____ nervously perpetuating the Touch of a Vanished Hand" [Charles Augustus Howell and Rosa Corder] XXII: "The Name of Dante Gabriel Rossetti is heard fro the First Time in the United States of America. Time: 1881. Lecturer: Mr. Oscar Wilde" Provenance: [Jack] Bohun Lynch (1884-1928) Bohun Lynch was born in London on 21 May 1884 of Irish parentage. He was educated at Haileybury School and University College, Oxford; during his time at the latter, he boxed as a middleweight and captained the boxing team in his last year. In 1908, he produced Oxford Quips: by a Crank, which presaged his parallel careers as a writer and caricaturist-illustrator. When he gave up a medical career on health grounds, he turned to journalism, becoming Boxing Correspondent for Field & Sport and producing four books on boxing, beginning with The Complete Amateur Boxer in 1913. However, he soon proved to be a writer of breadth. He publishe. …

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. First Edition. A magazine of Art & Literature. Scarce limited ed copy, no 147 of 150. A second volume was published in 1897. Numerous illustrations. Ricketts has designed the covers and contributed two illustrations one being an original engraving. The title page is designed by Selwyn Image and the endpapers by Lucien Pissaro. Pre and post-lims and a few inner pages foxed, spine a little bumped at foot and a little bumped and frayed at top, the odd scuff and minor mark elsewhere. But a very good copy indeed of the limited edition. With the exotic bookplate of Gilbert C Elliot, fine book collector, initialled by the designer with an interlocked AB.…