PHOEBE ANNA TRAQUAIR (1852-1936) INTEREST
DANTE - ILLUSTRATIONS AND NOTES
£450
Auction: Day Two: 22 April 2021 | From 11:00
Description
Illustrations and Notes, by John Sutherland Black, published by T. & A. Constable, Illustrations by Phoebe Anna Traquair, Private Printing, Edinburgh, 1890, Hardcover, 1st Edition, full leather with panel illustration on front cover and gilt design endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece & diagrammatic illustrations throughout, inscribed by Phoebe Traquair to contents page TO C. M. PEARSON, A SOUVENIR OF GREAT KINDNESS FROM A GRATEFUL FRIEND 1931, with accompanying hand-written note from Traquair on note paper headed 'The Bush, Colinton'
Footnote
Note: The accompanying note, hand-written by Traquair, reads: Dear Dr. Pearson, I have found an untouched copy of the Dante Illustrations in which I have written your name. This is better than the one I gave you. You mentioned that one of your daughters liked these things, I wonder if I could show her anything would interest her, yours very sincerely, Phoebe A Traquair.