Jessie M. King 'The Grey City Of The North : A Book Of Drawings' 1914

Title: The Grey City Of The North : A Book Of Drawings
Author: Jessie M. King
Publisher and date: T. N. Foulis, Edinburgh, July 1914 (2nd Edition)
Format: Small 8vo, Original boards with oversized dustwrapper, colour illustrations to front and rear panel, spine lettered in grey.
Contents: 24 captioned monochrome drawings by King.
Pages: 51pp.
Condition: Contents fine and bright in an age-toned dustwrapper, some inevitable wear to the outsized edges, spine a little scuffed but complete and intact.
Stock Number: RB01965

A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art during its golden age, Jessie M. King [1875-1949] was one of the pre-eminent Scottish book illustrators of the period. She landed her first commission in 1903, illustrated the Methuen edition of Wilde's A House Of Pomegranates in 1915, and by the time of her death in 1949 had produced a body of work which straddled both Art Nouveau and Art Deco, and which had been highly influential in the development of both. This pretty, fragile little book, an album of drawings of Edinburgh landmarks, was followed the next year by an accompanying Glasgow volume.