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WALLER, Pickford Robert(1849 London - 1930 Bournemouth)
Set of 6 sketchbooks
18 x 17 cm.
Numbered: Volume 2 to Volume 7. 796 painted pages several thousand pen and ink drawings and watercolor designs. Volumes 3, 4, 6, and 7 with art nouveau ornaments. In volume 2 and partly in volume 5 sketches for architecture, furniture, chandeliers, crowns, arms, iron grilles, railings, vessels, musical instruments, bookplates, flowers, leaves, and animals. All volumes with Pickford Waller bookplate and artist monogram at end, various single leaves monogrammed. Marbled endpapers, gilt edges all around, leather spine stamped in gilt. All volumes by the renowned London bookbinder Joseph William Zaehnsdorf, son of Josef Zaehnsdorf. Volume IV partially lightly foxed.
Waller, draftsman, draftsman, illustrator, designer, art collector. Son of the master builder Robert John Waller. Worked on several books for the Pear Tree Press. Close friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Sketchbooks in London's National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Mueum * Partner auction Bergmann.
Provenance : Franconian private estate of a former antiquarian.
Limit 900 €
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