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.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Lowell, Massachusetts 1834 – London 1903)
Category
Books
Date
1890
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dorneywood House and Gardens, Buckinghamshire
NT 3224407
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 292 p. ; 8vo. Provenance: Armorial bookplate signed H.J.F. Badeley 1945: Courtauld-Thomson Dorneywood [with motto: Fortiter aut suaviter. i.e. Lord Courtauld-Thomson (1865-1954)]; pink ink stamp: The National Trust founded 1895. Binding: untrimmed in brown paper with orange cloth spine over boards (spine sunned); impressed lettering in gold and blind.
Makers and roles
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Lowell, Massachusetts 1834 – London 1903)