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Wain, Louis, et al.
Louis Wain's Annual 1911-12.
Publisher: John F. Shaw & Co. Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1911
Stock Code: 12137
First Edition, PRESENTATION COPY. Quarto, pp. [4], 95, [1]. With 2 colour plates tipped-in to blue mount leaves, with tissue guards; numerous monochrome illustrations throughout, many full-page, and advertisement for Allenbury’s Foods to verso title-page. Presentation binding of red full morocco with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to spine and upper board and gilt fillets to boards; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Corners very slightly rubbed; very slight unobtrusive stain to upper board top edge. Printed and inscribed presentation plate “Presented by H. M. The Queen” dated 1912 to front paste-down, with ink blot also affecting facing page. Contents clean and bright- a Near Fine copy. 16 stories by various contributors, including “Betsy Jane” by Louis Wain, charmingly illustrated with Wain’s characteristic anthropomorphic depictions of felines (and a handful of canines). Queen Mary and George V’s first international tour following his accession was to the Delhi Durbar in India, and the royal couple sailed from Portsmouth on the “Medina”; this presentation copy was given by the Queen to a child from the Royal Seamen & Marines’ Orphan Schools and Female Orphan Home in Portsmouth. £400.00