Ten O'Clock: A Lecture

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (Contributions by), and Seitz, Don C. (Foreword by)

Published by Thomas Bird Mosher, Portland, ME, 1920

About this Item

xii, 64, [1] pages, [3] leaves of plates (1 folded), illustrations, facsimile, portrait; 24 cm. Edition of 450 copies. Issued in a slipcase. Firm binding, clean text. Gift inscription, dated 1922, inked on the front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket (plain white, with titles on spine) tanned, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. Slipcase with light shelfwear, expected browning. "Four hundred and fifty copies of this book printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper and the type distributed in the month of September MDCCCCXX"- Colophon. *** CONTENTS: Foreword, by Don C. Seitz; "Ten o'clock"; The red rag; Propositions; Propositions-no.2; A further proposition, by J. A. McNeill Whistler; Mr. Whistler's lecture on art, by A. C. Swinburne; "Et tu, Brute!"; Freeing a last friend, by J.A. McNeill Whistler; Before the mirror, by A.C. Swinburne. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ten O'Clock: A Lecture
• Publisher: Thomas Bird Mosher, Portland, ME
• Publication Date: 1920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • European::8. Modern, 1900-1945
  • European::British & Irish
  • Aesthetics & Art Criticism
  • USA::5. Modern, 1900-1945
  • XXX::COLLECTIBLES