Scottish Etcher (5 results)

Condition: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back over navy ground. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains (xx), 332 pp with 15 plates and 17 monochrome headpieces. Fine condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing of the paper to the spine ends and corners. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROYAL NAVY (RN).

1p., 12mo. Bifolium. Good, on aged paper. The letter reads: 'Dear Daffarn | I will be in any time in the afternoon after 2.30 on Friday, & will be pleased to see you and your friend Watson. | The work goes on slowly but I think I will finish in time.'.

Title (tanned) printed in red and black & 4-pages of text. With three of the original 6 published etchings in the series; each signed by the artist. Each matted and in very good condition. The 3 are: Rio Malibran; Rialto; & Canale Grande. Each on sheet size 20 3/4 x 15 inches. All contained in the original large (21 x 15 3/4 inch) bevelled full leather portrfolio blocked in gilt; this dry and rubbed.

Artist and etcher. See new DNB for substantial entry. Twelve autograph letters and notes signed, all 8vo, total 35+ pages, good condition. Contents: (undated letter) asking Lane to get a "Miss Hester Frow" work as illustrator with a weekly or monthly periodical (19 May 1903) He tells Lane to expect a letter from a Miss White concerning "an interesting matter" which she had already put before another London publisher, but Cameron thought Lane "the real man for the subject". He thinks the projected book would have a large circulation and she is "well known" as is her father, J. Forbes White, who "was about the first to buy the great French artists in this country. (16 July 1903) "the Burns drawings and the remuneration". He expects to send them soon. (10 Sept. 1903) About his drawings for the "Poems of William Watson" [pub. by Lane in [1904]] and Burns. "Some time when you wish some important work I shall be glad to consider it." He asks for the publication date for the Watson since "there are several poems in it I should like to do." (1905) He is disappointed he cannot entertain Lane "the father & friend of the poets and the brilliant writer of among the most talked of articles . . ." (April 1906) Jocular letter. (Sept. 1906) Books sent to Devon. (July 1910) "I will see what I have in the way of etchings . . . Gutekunst & Obaeli have my etchings - but as I have done so few plates for a year or two they have my old proofs just now & the prices are very high and such as no professor should pay-". (June 1910) He would have enjoyed being a guest at the meeting of "Ye Sette of Odd Volumes"; saw the King's Funeral; travelling. (Feb. 1911) Illness. (Nov. 1902) Failure to meet up. (1916) daeth of "Phillips"; meeting planned. WITH: autograph postcard signed, 9 April 1903, returning a book, hopes to meet in London. AND: three Chrsitmas cards, two with motif and his address in gilt. Sixteen items,

Condition: Good. Etching on machine-made laid paper with watermark. 23 x 31 cm (sheet). Very Good, light specks of foxing in the margins.