Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Wilde v Whistler: An Acrimonious Correspondence on Art Between Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler

London: Privately Printed, 1906. Softcover. Octavo. 20pp. Original tan wraps with black lettering on cover. 400 copies on small quarto paper, and 100 large paper copies on demy octavo paper, have been printed of this brochure. Contains a review by Oscar Wilde on Whistler's famous "Ten O'Clock-Lecture" given on February 10, 1885, in London. Among other critical remarks Whistler denounced art critics in his lecture and caused such a stir that he was asked to give his lecture in Oxford and Cambridge which resulted in a verbal exchange between Whistler and Wilde around aesthetical issues. Mason # 625. Wraps with wear along edges, moderate and small chips and creasing on back cover, fragile. Block age-toned. Wraps in overall fair, interior in good+ condition. fair to g+. Item #40553

Price: $150.00

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