Author: GIBSON, Frank
Title: Charles Conder: His Life and Work
Description: 1914. [CONDER, Charles]. GIBSON, Frank. CHARLES CONDER: HIS LIFE AND WORK. With a catalogue of the lithographs and etchings by Campbell Dodgson, M.A. Keeper of Prints and Drawings, British Museum. With one hundred & twenty-one [i.e. 120] illustrations. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914. First edition. Complete with 120 plates (though the t.p. says 121 plates, only 120 are called for in the plate list), including eleven in color. Quarto. 117 pp. Bound by the Atelier Bindery for Charles Scribner's Sons in three-quarter green morocco, marbled paper sides, spine in six compartents, with either gilt lettering or a decorative device within each, t.e.g. Superficial rubbing at joints and corners, and the spine has faded to brown, but solid and still attractive. Clean within, and very good plus overall. Conder (1969-1909), British landscape painter and designer of fans, studied art in Melbourne, Australia, and at Julian's in Paris, becoming an Associate of the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts in 1893. He also contributed to The Yellow Book, The Savoy, and The Page. .

Keywords: