$900
Wanamaker, Lewis Rodman (1863-1928) Presentation Album, Signed Portraits of British Peerage, c. 1925. Large folio volume bound in full crushed navy morocco by Zaenhsdorf, a.e.g., lacking the watered silk doublures and endleaves in the front, fragmentary at the back, each photograph signed by the subject, set into a hand-ruled mat, thrown out on fabric joints, with a hand-written curriculum vitae in a calligraphic hand facing, 20 1/4 x 16 1/4 in. The following fifteen members of Parliament are included: Edmund FitzAlan-Howard (1855-1947); Algernon Keffington (1873-1952); James Caulfeild (1880-1949); George Monckton-Arundell (1844-1931); Henry Upton, Viscount Templetown (1853-1939); Frederick Smith, Viscount Hambleden (1868-1928); William Peel (1867-1937); Charles Colville (1854-1928); Herbert Gladstone (1854-1930); Richard Burdon Haldane (1856-1928); Montolieu Oliphant-Murray (1840-1927); John Bigham, Viscount Mersey (1840-1929); Sir Edward Grey (1862-1933); Weetman Pearson (1856-1927); Ivor Churchill Guest (1873-1939). The portrait of the Earl Jellicoe (1859-1935), called for on the contents page, has been removed.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-17