Whistler: Butterfly, Wasp, Wit, Master of the Arts, Enigma

by Haldane Macfall

$875 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Edinburgh & London: T.N. Foulis Press, 1905. Slim 8vo, 70 pp. Bound by Pender in lush decorated morocco with Whistler’s stylized butterfly with a stinger on upper cover in green and purple. With 16 illustrations including a frontispiece caricature portrait of the author. Top edge gilt and gilt ruling at turn-ins, with silk endpapers. Very minor foxing to edges, final leaf of ads pasted together with final page of text. § Limited edition of 1000 copies.

• Binding: Leather

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