Whistler (James Abbott McNeill) The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, inscribed by the author "To Siegfried Bing - with compliments & pleasant sympathy" and butterfly monogram on front free endpaper, 1892; Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly, Paris, [1899] § Pennell (E.R. & J.) The Life of James McNeill Whistler 2 vol., 1908 § Menpes (Mortimer) Whistler as I Knew Him, number 138 of 500 deluxe copies signed by the author and with original etching by Whistler of the Menpes children, original decorated cloth, t.e.g., spine soiled, A. & C.Black, 1904, plates and illustrations, the first two lightly browned with occasional foxing, all but the last original cloth-backed boards, rubbed, all uncut, 4to (5) ⁂ Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), influential German-French art dealer who introduced Japanese art to the West, published the magazine Le Japon Artistique, and was an important figure in the development of the Art Nouveau style.
Whistler (James Abbott McNeill) The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, inscribed by the author "To Siegfried Bing - with compliments & pleasant sympathy" and butterfly monogram on front free endpaper, 1892; Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly, Paris, [1899] § Pennell (E.R. & J.) The Life of James McNeill Whistler 2 vol., 1908 § Menpes (Mortimer) Whistler as I Knew Him, number 138 of 500 deluxe copies signed by the author and with original etching by Whistler of the Menpes children, original decorated cloth, t.e.g., spine soiled, A. & C.Black, 1904, plates and illustrations, the first two lightly browned with occasional foxing, all but the last original cloth-backed boards, rubbed, all uncut, 4to (5) ⁂ Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), influential German-French art dealer who introduced Japanese art to the West, published the magazine Le Japon Artistique, and was an important figure in the development of the Art Nouveau style.
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