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The gentle art of making enemies as pleasingly exemplified in many instances, wherein the serious ones of this earth, carefully exasperated, have been prettily spurred on to unseemliness and indiscretion, while overcome by an undue sense of right [Whistler]

Catalog Data

Author:
Whistler, James McNeill 1834-1903  Search this
Former owner:
Freer, Charles Lang 1854-1919 DSI-F  Search this
Subject:
Whistler, James McNeill 1834-1903 Criticism and interpretation  Search this
Physical description:
[16], 292 pages 26 cm
Type:
Books
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Date:
1890
Notes:
"This Edition is limited to two hundred and fifty copies--one hundred and fifty for England--one hundred for America--no. 217"
Includes index
Published simultaneously with the first authorized edition by Heinemann
"S.I. 606"-- spine label.
Copy has Whistler's handwritten marginalia to Freer on inside cover: "To Charles L. Freer" with accompanying butterfly sketch.
"S.I. 606"-- spine label
Copy has Whistler's handwritten marginalia to Freer on inside cover: "To Charles L. Freer" with accompanying butterfly sketch
Call number:
927.W57 G36 1890
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1009531