With autograph letter
Divers Vanities.
London: Methuen, [1905].
Price: $250.00
About the item
First edition. viii, 356 pp., 32-page publisher’s catalogue dated September 1905. 1 vols. 8vo. With autograph letter. Green cloth gilt. Endpapers toned, front flyleaf margin defective. Autograph letter, signed, from Morrison, affixed to front flyleaf. Letter fine, with original mailing envelope. Wolff 4939.
Item #301870
Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945), author of Tales of Mean Streets (1894), The Hole in the Wall (1902), writes his correspondent, a Mr. Charles Wilson of Co. Durham, on 10 Feb. 1933, that he has been preparing to send some of his best pictures (“43 to be exact”) to an exhibition at the Oxford Art Club
Morrison collected Chinese and Japanese works of art, beginning in the early 1890s, and “in 1902 published a series of articles on the subject in the Monthly Review. The culmination of his work in this area was his two-volume The Painters of Japan (1911), largely illustrated from his own collection” (ODNB). The collection was purchased and given to the British Museum in 1913.
