Whistlers Ten Oclock Together Swinburnes by Whistler James Mcneill Swinburne Algernon (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. Top spine end is missing, bottom spine has very slight wear. Pages have some very slight foxing, mostly near the edges. ; Copy #34. Whistler's lecture was first delivered in London Feb. 20, 1885. Swinburne's comment appeared in Fortnightly Review, June 1888.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. This is a very, very rare limited edition and title. My copy is one of 105 numbered copies (Number 83) printed on Italian handmade paper, from a total edition of 175 copies. I was able to find only one other copy for sale on the Internet. See if you can find any others and check out the comparison by price and condition. Hint: this is priced at a dramatic discount. As you can see from the photographs, time does not equal soiling in this case. You would think that 112 years would be sufficient to create a little bit of soiling but unless I spill something on it the next few moments that will prove to be not the case. There is some wear. You should be able to see the nearly three inch tear running up from the bottom edge at the juncture between the front cover and spine (you can glimpse the webbing beneath it). There is also a small tear going across the spine and below it the spine shows a slight change of color. This is because that part of the spine was exposed due to a total loss of the dust jacket paper that would have covered it. There are also bump/creases at the two corners of the front cover, and a smidge of loss at the top of the spine. Know that the tear on the front cover has no relevance to the binding of the book. The binding is very strong, very solid, from beginning to end. And the pages are in excellent condition, certainly taking into account their age. They are in fact quite bright and clean. That's rather remarkable and apparently due to the quality of the paper. The previous owners (Mary And Lawrence Williams) placed a very small bookplate on the inside cover, and on Oct third 1905, Lawrence Williams penned his name on the second free end paper. That is the only writing to be found in the book. And there are no markings. The inside cover and first front end paper have some spotting, the title page a few light spots only. And that's it. The only other spotting to be found is after the book ends, on the rear end paper and rear inside cover. There is very minor toning at the top margin of the pages. The frontispiece, protected by a tissue guard in very good condition, is spotless. The pages are in excellent condition with the exception to that being a little bit of wear at the title page right edge and a very tiny spot of paper loss at the bottom edge of one page. That was a detailed description. On to the dust jacket. It could be better, but I don't think you'll Find one that's better, since I think it's the only one out there. It is Not clipped although neither flap has any information on it, price or otherwise. The flaps are in decent shape, no soiling. The major flaws can be seen in the photograph of the spine, a third of it is missing and the part that is present is detached from the rear cover. Other than that, as you should be able to see, the front cover has a few spots of soiling, not much on the back cover, and there's small loss at the edges of both. 112 year-old dust jacket. Could be worse. 'Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He invented the roundel form, wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in every year from 1903 to 1907 and again in 1909. James McNeill Whistler was an American-born, British-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger for a tail. The symbol was apt, for it combined both aspects of his personality-his art was characterized by a subtle delicacy, while his public persona was combative.'.