first edition Hardcover
1952 · London
by Whistler, Laurence
London: Richards Press, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. orange cloth, front cover decorated and lettered in gilt. Very good. Whistler, Rex. 24 pages in text. 33.5 x 28 cm. Limited edition, copy 77 of 1000. 10 tipped-in plates, plus a facsimile of Whistler's first letter to Mason accepting the commission. This work completed by Whistler during the heat wave in the summer of 1941 while serving in the Welsh Guards during WW II. Whistler illustrates Mason's romantic tale from the days of the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV in a setting of German Baroque palaces and gardens. Backstrip rubbed at extremities and sunned. (Inventory #: 20789)