Description
Signed deluxe limited edition of Whistler As I Knew Him by Mortimer Menpes.
Quarto, xxvi, 153pp, [1]. Cream cloth, black and orange pattern stamped to covers. Title in gilt on front cover and spine, top edge gilt. Rippling and a few punctures to cloth covers, sunned spine. Both hinges worn, text block remains stable. Foxing throughout volume. A very good example. Previous ownership inscription to half-title. Complete with 125 full-page plates, and a frontispiece etching of the Menpes children by Whistler.
One of 500 limited edition copies, this one numbered 340. Signed by the author, Mortimer Menpes, on the limitation page.
Mortimer Menpes was a student of renowned American Gilded Age painter, James McNeill Whistler. The pair met in 1880 while Menpes was on a sketching tour in Brittany, France, and remained close until Whistler’s passing in 1903.
