[Rarebooks] FS: John Singer Sargent's Copy of Alice Meynell's COLLECTED POEMS

[Charles Agvent]

[SARGENT, John Singer] MEYNELL, Alice. COLLECTED POEMS OF ALICE MEYNELL. 
London: Burns & Oates Ltd., 1913. First Edition. Full green cloth with 
gilt rules and lettering. Frontispiece portrait of Meynell by John 
Singer Sargent. This copy is INSCRIBED by Meynell to Sargent "with all 
kindest remembrances/from the writer/May 1913." Tipped to the front 
pastedown is a 1-1/2 page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED from Meynell to 
Sargent dated May 22 noting the use of his drawing in the book and 
presenting this copy of the book with gratitude to him. With Sargent's 
booklabel beneath the inscription on the front endpaper and below that 
the small label of Mary Elizabeth Hudson. Meynell wrote the introduction 
to the 1903 portfolio THE WORK OF JOHN S. SARGENT. Laid into the book is 
an old description from the prominent New York city bookseller Philip C. 
Duschnes likely dating back to the 1950s or earlier. A superbly unique 
copy in Fine condition. (#008716)        $1,500.00

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