ROTHENSTEIN, William. Twenty-Four Portraits; With Critical Appreciations by Various Hands.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1920. Limited First Edition of 2000 copies (1200 for sale in Great Britain, 800 in the U.S.). Octavo (10.25" x 7"); unpaginated. 24 collotype illustrations reproduced by Emery Walker. Original printed dustjacket; book in green paper-covered boards with paper title card and dark green cloth spine. Jacket shows a few small chips along edges and a couple small, clean tears along folds. Boards are sturdy and square with some fading along top edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
Hailed on the jacket as "The Literary Gift Book of the Year," the volume collects twenty-four drawings done by Rothenstein of his "friends and contemporaries." Subjects include:
Granville Barker
Max Beerbohm
Arnold Bennett
Robert Bridges
A. Clutton-Brock
T.J. Cobden-Sanderson
Joseph Conrad
John Drinkwater
Sir Edward Elgar, O.M.
Sir James Frazer
John Galsworthy
Andre Gide
Edmund Gosse
Lord Haldane, O.M.
Thomas Hardy, O.M.
A.E. Housman
W.H. Hudson
Dean Inge
T.E. Lawrence
John Masefield
George Russell (A.E.)
G. Bernard Shaw
Sir J.J. Thomson, O.M.
H.G. Wells
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