Alexander (1767-1816) was particularly noted for his pencil and watercolor portraits of Chinese people, of which this frontal bust drawing is a fine, typical example. Many of these derive from his lengthy stay in Peking, beginning in 1792; on his return to London he became a professor of art, and..... Read More about Chinese Woman: a pencil portrait

London: A.H. Baily, 1838. First edition. Read More about Sporting Embellished by Large Engravings Illustrative of British Field Sports

1922. Unpublished. In addition to a few early impressions of the final state, twenty were printed in 1930. Read More about Salus infirmorum

London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. One of 1000 copies on Art Paper, this copy un-numbered. Beardsley's Last Book. Beardsley had intended a series of 24 drawings for Jonson's Venetian comedy, but died before completing it, at the age of 26. Read More about Volpone: or The Foxe. With a critical essay on the author by Vincent O'Sullivan together with an...

1920. Fine condition, framed. Beerbohm on Balfour. Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) was an English writer and caricaturist known for his novel Zuleika Dobson, as well as for his caricatures. The youngest of nine children of a Lithuanian-born grain merchant, Max grew up in London, attended Oxford (where he met Oscar Wilde..... Read More about Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, 1920

New York and London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1897. First edition, Bodley Booklets No. 1, printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press Springfield, Mass., with colophon date of December 1896. Read More about The Happy Hypocrite

[Rapallo?]: 1914. Lord Northcliffe Trains a One Penny Elephant. Lord Northcliffe as Ringmaster training an elephant with '1d' on its head; Northcliffe reduced the price of the Times to one penny in 1914. Read More about Lord Northcliffe (“The Times”

1932. Excellent portrait in Beerbohms's characteristic style of Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (1878-1949), Conservative politician, sometime Minister of the Air and second cousin to Winston Churchill. Read More about Lord Londonderry

1827. Fine Hayter Etching, 1827. Sir George Hayter was Court Portrait Painter to Queen Victoria and especially noted for his large canvases of classical subjects. His etchings are important contributions to Victorian printmaking. Read More about St John

Ca. 1930. Blackmore, Katie. Original Watercolor by Katie Blackmore. An exquisite and highly decorative sudy of a kimono-clad woman against a black india ink background. Katie Blackmore, R.B.A., (fl. 1920-1950) was noted for the delicacy of her detail as well as her keen sense of design, and both are amply..... Read More about Japanese Street Vendor Carrying Her Child

London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1925. First Edition, No. 9 of 100 copies, signed by the author on the limitation page. One of 100 Copies. A sumptuous production. Read More about The Followers of William Blake: Edward Calvert, Samuel Palmer, George Richmond & Their Circle

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1785. A New Edition, Corrected. (Fourth Edition, first was 1774, plates dated 1780). This edition was issued with and without plates. Only one plate is signed Blake. Blake's First Commercial Plates. Read More about The Speaker: or Miscellaneous Pieces selected form the Best English Writers...With a View to...