London / New York: Duckworth & Co. / Mitchell Kennerley, 1913.
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Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Coburn. Quarto. Original beige cloth gilt. 33 tipped-in monochrome photogravure plates, each with the subject's signature in facsimile and a tissue guard. Corners a little bumped, tissue guards toned and one with a tear, but a very near fine copy in the rare dust jacket, also very near fine with tiny nicks and the slightest of edgewear. Portraits of artists and authors including George Meredith, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Henry James, Auguste Rodin, Roger Fry, William Dean Howell, Clarence H. White, Henri Matisse, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Frank Brangwyn, William Butler Yeats, Robert Bridges, and others.
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