Lot 588
PETER WAALS (1870-1937)
ARTS & CRAFTS BOOKCASE, CIRCA 1925
Auction: Day Two inc FL Griggs : A Cotswold Legacy | Lots 334 to 654 | Thursday 16th October from 10am
Description
oak and glass, the interior with four adjustable shelves
Dimensions
211.5cm wide, 107cm high, 47.5cm deep
Provenance
The Cotswold Gallery, 59 Frith Street, Soho Square, London
Mr A. J. Finberg, purchased November 2nd 1923
Herbert Finberg
Taranman Gallery, London
Private Collection
Footnote
Alexander Joseph Finberg (1866-1939) worked as an illustrator for The Graphic and the Illustrated London News, and later as an art critic for newspapers such as the Manchester Guardian and the Saturday Review. In 1905, he was commissioned by the trustees of the National Gallery to arrange and catalogue the Turner Bequest, rediscovering a number of canvases and publishing the Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest (1909). His son, Herbert Finberg (1900-1974), established the Alcuin Press in a barn at Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, before turning to academic work. He later became Head of the Department of English Local History at the University of Leicester, serving as Reader and subsequently Professor from 1952 until his retirement in 1965.