The Book of Beauty (Late Victorian Era) Very Scarce 1896 Ltd De Luxe edition

The Book of Beauty (Late Victorian era) A Collection of Beautiful Portraits with Literary, Artistic, and Musical Contributions By Men and Women of the Day. Edited and arranged by Mrs F Harcourt Williamson (Emma Sara Williamson). Published in 1896 by Hutchinson & Co. 194 pages, 93 photogravures & illustrations, list of subscribers to rear. White cloth binding, with bevelled edges, gilt decoration & titling to upper & lower boards and spine, No.

168 of the First Edition De Luxe of 300 copies, signed by Publisher to limitation page. Literary contributors include Rudyard Kipling, Hall Caine, Theodore Watts-Dunton, George Moore, Israel Zangwill, Wilfrid Blunt. Artists reproduced include John Everett Millais, Lord Leighton, Edward Hughes, W B Richmond, Jame McNeil Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Hubert von Herkomer, Ellis Roberts, G F Watts. Some wear, soiling to spine, covers, offsetting to prelims.

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