The Königsmark Drawings : Reproduced in Facsimile in Sepia and Colour, with an introduction, and the story in brief, derived from A.E.W. Mason's novel, by Laurence Whistler.

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Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies. Cloth, gilt cover device, 4to, 34 cm, 24 pp, colour plates. From Laurence Whistler's introduction: "Since the drawings are essentially illustrations to a story, my first idea was that they should be reproduced in a sumptuous edition of a novel. But it has to be allowed that Konigsmark, though an eminently readable tale, is not of the literary quality appropriate to a limited edition, and in any case Mr. Mason's publishers were not in favour of that course. Therefore, if these lovely drawings were to be reproduced at all, for a public that cares for such things, there was no alternative to reproducing them elsewhere, and by themselves. In the abridgement of the story which follows, only those major events arc mentioned that concern the plates, and several episodes and characters arc left out altogether. I hope it may serve as the slenderest of narrative threads on which to hang in sequence, for better enjoyment, the Konigsmark drawings." The introduction sets out also theinteresting wartime correspondence between Mason and Rex Whistler which led to the production of the drawings. Copy No. 678. Covers faintly mottled but without mustiness, slight offsetting to front free endpaper from a laid in clipping of an article on Whistler's architecture, otherwise Good in Near Very Good dustwrapper. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-52681

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