Alfred Gilbert by Isabel Mcallister , A & C Black, London , 1929 (First Edition)

First Edition of Isabel Mcallister’s 1929 monograph on the British sculptor Alfred Gilbert with forty plates in photogravure. Bound in cream cloth decorated in an elaborate art nouveau style in brown and red on upper cover and on the spine. Title and author stamped in gilt on spine. Lower cover has a small decoration in the centre with the A&C Black monogram printed in brown. Apart from some bumping to the extremities, the cover is in very good condition. This copy has its (rare) dust jacket in good condition despite some tears and chipping. The decoration on the dust jacket repeats the pattern from the cover but in green and brown. The contents are in excellent condition. A very nice copy especially with the scarce dust jacket. Alfred Gilbert (knighted in 1932, three years after this biography and two years before his death) was one the finest and most important English sculptors of the Victorian and Edwardian age. Although he lived a somewhat peripatetic, bohemian and eccentric life, he received commissions from important members of the British establishment and is best remembered now for "The Angel of Christian Charity" in Piccadilly Circus, popularly if erroneously know as "Eros".

Title: Alfred Gilbert
Author: Isabel Mcallister
Publisher: A & C Black, London
Publication date: 1929 (First Edition)
Format: Thick quarto, xii+236pp, illustrated, original boards in edgewrorn dustwrapper, a very good copy.
Pages: 236
Images: 40
Condition: Very Good
Provenance: The library of Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02074