Clarke (Harry, illustrator) -- Algernon Charles Swinburne: Selected Poems, 8vo, [1928], inscribed by Harry Clarke on front blank 'to my friend W.H. Blackburn', 10 engraved plates by the artist, each signed and dated 1929 in pencil, illustrations, several initialled, original purple cloth, gilt, t.e.g., dust-jacket; and with an original pen and ink illustration 'Drawing for blank page at end of book' on card loosely inserted (11 x 8 in.; 28 x 20 cm.) -- Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von): Faust, number 221 of 1000 copies signed by Harry Clarke, 4to, [1925], frontispiece and 20 plates by Clarke, some coloured, all signed in pencil and dated 1929, illustrations, original vellum-backed boards, t.e.g. (2)

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Clarke (Harry, illustrator) -- Algernon Charles Swinburne: Selected Poems, 8vo, [1928], inscribed by Harry Clarke on front blank 'to my friend W.H. Blackburn', 10 engraved plates by the artist, each signed and dated 1929 in pencil, illustrations, several initialled, original purple cloth, gilt, t.e.g., dust-jacket; and with an original pen and ink illustration 'Drawing for blank page at end of book' on card loosely inserted (11 x 8 in.; 28 x 20 cm.) -- Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von): Faust, number 221 of 1000 copies signed by Harry Clarke, 4to, [1925], frontispiece and 20 plates by Clarke, some coloured, all signed in pencil and dated 1929, illustrations, original vellum-backed boards, t.e.g. (2)

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According to information provided by the vendor, Harry Clarke met Dr. Blackburn while recovering from an attack of tuberculosis at a hospital in Switzerland, and the two men struck up an instant friendship.

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