1914 Francisco Goya A Study of the Work and Personality of the Eighteenth Century Spanish Painter and Satirist.

Description

Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Illustrated, Signed

The first edition of the work. With forty eight full page monochrome plates. Signed and dedicated by author Hugh Stokes to art scholar Rainforth Armitage Walker, 'To R. A. Walker Esq With the good wishes of Hugh Stokes, June 1920'. With the bookplate of Rainforth Armitage Walker to front pastedown. This example of Walker's numerous bookplates was designed by noted Scottish artist James Guthrie. Walker was known for his relationship with Aubrey Beardsley, the English author and illustrator. Beardsley designed a series of bookplates for Walker based upon his illustrations created for Le Morte D'Arthur. This bookplate is not one of Beardsley's, but was instead designed by James Guthrie and is dated 1914. Guthrie was best known for his portraits but was also commissioned to create bookplates, including this particular example for Walker. We can find no other record of this particular bookplate. The work details the work and life of Spanish painter and satirist Francisco Goya who is considered the most important Spanish painter of the 18th and early 19th century.