Rothenstein, John. The Portrait Drawings of William Rothenstein, 1889-1925; An Iconography by John Rothenstein with a Preface by Max Beerbohm and 101 Collotype Plates. New York: The Viking Press, 1927. Limited Edition. No. 222 of 520 copies, of which 500 were for sale. [6672]
Black cloth with gilt titles, 10 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches, top page edge gilt. Ex college library copy with outline of removed library spine label, ink name and number stamps on the title page. Paste residue from removed bookplate on front paste-down, shadows on binding from sometime removed cello tape strips. xviii., 121 text pages followed by 101 collotype plates interspersed with captioned tissue leaves. Text and plates clean and unmarked. Rear end papers with name stamp and cello tape remnants. Additional charges for overseas or Priority shipping. Good. Hardcover.
Sir William Rothenstein (1872-1945), English painter, printmaker, draughtsman, lecturer and author. More than two hundred of Rothenstein's portraits of famous people can be found in the National Portrait Gallery collection (London).
Includes a chronological list of nearly 900 portraits produced by Rothenstein.
The plates include portraits of James Whistler, Edgar Dumas, Emile Zola, Algernon Charles Swinburne, George Bernard Shaw, Hilaire Belloc, W. B. Yeats, Max Beerbohm, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Lord Kelvin, John Galsworthy, Auguste Rodin, Anatole France, A. E. Housman, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Bertrand Russell, G. K. Chesterton, Aldous Huxley, E. M. Forster, Albert Einstein, and H. W. Nevinson.
