Samuel Palmer: A Memoir.

Palmer (A.H.)

Samuel Palmer: A Memoir.

Also a Catalogue of his Works, including those exhibited by the Fine Art Society, and an account of the Milton Series of Drawings, by L.R. Valpy.

Description: FIRST EDITION, frontispiece original etching ('Christmas', see below), illustrated title-page and 12 further Autotype plates, all with tissue-guards, 9 wood-engravings (4 within the text, the others tissue-guarded), some light spotting throughout, pp. ii, 105, [1], 4to, modern half dark-green crushed morocco with green cloth sides, t.e.g., a few faint spots to other edges, the upper panel of original cloth binding (lettered in gilt) laid to front pastedown, black card with aperture for frontispiece etching laid in, very good

Publication Details: The Fine Art Society, 1882

Notes: A complete copy, retaining the original etching that is sometimes found wanting - 'Christmas, from Bampfylde's Sonnet', also known as 'Folding the Last Sheep', and first published here from the plate in the possession of the artist's widow.The memoir is written by his son, Alfred Herbert Palmer.

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Price: £1,850

Subject: Art & Architecture

Published Date: 1882

Stock Number: 73775

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