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BEERBOHM, Max. Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet, [London: no publisher, 1931]. 2° (400 x 287mm). Facsimile note and 5 mounted coloured caricature plates by Max Beerbohm, unbound as issued, in original parchment-backed portfolio gilt. ONE OF 100 COPIES (THIS COPY UNNUMBERED) WITH EACH PLATE SIGNED BY ITS SUBJECT. The subjects of the plates are Noel Coward, Peggy Wood, George Metaxa, Ivy St. Helier and Charles B. Cochrane.
With 9 other books by Max Beerbohm, Caricatures of Twenty-Five Gentlemen (London, 1896), The Poets' Corner (London, 1904), A Book of Caricatures (London, 1907, mounted plates with facsimile captions on tissue guards), Fifty Caricatures (London, 1913), A Survey (London, 1921), A Peep into the Past (New York, 1923, ONE OF 300 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM), Things New and Old (London, 1923), Observations (London, 1925), and Zuleika Dobson ... with a Foreword and Illustrations by Osbert Lancaster (Oxford, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1975, NUMBER 551 OF 750 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST). (10)
With 9 other books by Max Beerbohm, Caricatures of Twenty-Five Gentlemen (London, 1896), The Poets' Corner (London, 1904), A Book of Caricatures (London, 1907, mounted plates with facsimile captions on tissue guards), Fifty Caricatures (London, 1913), A Survey (London, 1921), A Peep into the Past (New York, 1923, ONE OF 300 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM), Things New and Old (London, 1923), Observations (London, 1925), and Zuleika Dobson ... with a Foreword and Illustrations by Osbert Lancaster (Oxford, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1975, NUMBER 551 OF 750 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST). (10)
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