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Altre immaginiEditore: Librairie Marpon Et Flammarion, Paris 1892
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Da: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, , Regno UnitoBurwood Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. 4to.pp. 335. Signed from Sholto Johnstone Douglas "Sybil from Sholto. Christmas Ð1893." In French. Original publisherÕs boards in ivory, lettered gilt at spine, featuring a highly detailed and decorative, imaginary and dreamlike drawing of a hillside town enveloped…in the wings of a Dove by Carloz Schwabe. The mounted rear cover illustration is of a woman with a waterfall of long hair against a backdrop of a black heart with rain/teardrops. Full-size black and white plates illustrate the text with an appropriately dreamlike quality, interspersed with decorative Art Nouveau in-text line drawings./ Robert Sholto Johnstone Douglas (1871Ð1958) known as Sholto Douglas, or more formally as Sholto Johnstone Douglas, was a Scottish figurative artist of portraits and landscapes. Douglas's cousin Lord Alfred Douglas, or 'Bosie', was a close friend of the writer Oscar Wilde. In 1895, he stood surety for the bail of Oscar Wilde. /Sibyl Montgomery, Marchioness of Queensberry (1845 -1935) had her portrait painted in her 61st year by Sholto Johnstone Douglas/Carlos Schwabe (1866Ð1926) was a Swiss Symbolist painter and printmaker. As a young man in Paris he worked as a wallpaper designer and became acquainted with Symbolist artists, musicians (Guillaume Lekeu, Vincent d'Indy) and writers. Schwabe received the French Lgion of Honor in 1902. Near very good. Slight general wear & slight marking and rubbing of covers. Clipped half title page. Signedes.
