ALASTAIR Pater, Walter Sebastian van Storck 1927
Walter Pater s Sebastian van Storck, Illustrated by Alastair[ALASTAIR, illustrator]. PATER, Walter. Sebastian van Storck. With Eight Illustrations in Colour by Alastair and an Introduction by P.G. Konody. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1927.Limited to 1,050 numbered copies (this copy being No. 40), each copy with one of the plates signed by the artist. Large quarto (12 3/8 x 10 1/8; 313 x 250 mm). 67, [1] pp. Eight color plates (including frontispiece). This copy with the third plate signed by Alastair in pencil.Original cream-colored cloth lettered in gilt and pictorially stamped in brown. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Very minor rubbing to spine and extremities. A near fine copy. Publisher s parchment dust jacket. Housed in the publisher s brown slipcase with printed paper label. Slipcase lacking spine and with some wear to edges. The legitimate successor of Aubrey Beardsley whose conventions served him not as models to copy, but as bases for new rhythms pulsing with strange nervous energy and sensibility (Introduction).
$US500
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