WHISTLER, Rex.

The New Forget-Me-Not:

A Calendar.

Stock Code 104213

London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1929

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Association copy. An important association copy of this lovely book by Rex Whistler, with charming colour plates and oft amusing allegorical decorations and satirical vignettes.

First edition, number 124 of 130 copies, signed presentation copy from Whistler; 8vo; pictorial half-title with presentation inscription, blue-ruled title-page, bound-in errata slip as issued, full-page colour plates, plain vignettes; publisher's blue-stained half-vellum over pictorial papered boards as issued (vellum sunned), uncut.

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Presented to Lady Juliet Duff (née Lowther; 1881-1965), socialite and patron of the Arts, by Rex Whistler (1904-1944), ink manuscript presentation autograph inscription and illustrated foliate vignette; Lady Juliet's etched pictorial bookplate (possibly by Rex Whistler) to front pastedown.

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