WALLER, Pickford (illus.); WALLER, Edmund.

£250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Songs and Verses selected from the Works of Edmund Waller. First, and only, edition of 150 copies, this number 7 of 25 "on handmade paper with the ornaments printed in red". This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper; "To Marie Corbett con amore Pickford Waller", together with a large floral decoration in the style of those to the text. Selection of works by his 17th-century kinsman attractively decorated by Pickford Robert Waller (1849-1930), artist-illustrator, "an avid collector of of Whistleriana, first met Whistler when he visited his studio as a young man" (University of Glasgow online).

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