[Rarebooks] FS: Whistler vs. Swinburne -Goddess Insulted.

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “ "Mr. Whistler's Lecture on Art" -A Facsimile of Mr. Swinburne's
Essay”

Published in St.Louis, around 1912/3.

DISCUSSION: The publication of James McNeil Whistler's stylish "Ten
O'clock" lecture led his long-time friend, the poet Algernon Charles
Swinburne, to write a critical review of it for the "Fortnightly" in June,
1888. The manuscript of that review is reproduced here in facsimile.
Whistler did not take criticism from anybody very well, and he certainly
wasn't expecting it from old friends. He wrote Swinburne a blistering
reply which included the lines "Who are you...that you should insult my
Goddess with familiarity?". Swinburne and Whistler never spoke again.

DESCRIPTION: 9"x13" folding cloth folder enclosing 15 loose sheets of a
facsimile of Swinburne's manuscript printed on purple paper, and a cover
sheet printed with the crest of the Bibliophile Society. A typed letter
also included from W.K. Bixby to D.P. Kinglsey, presenting him with this
copy, explains that the Bibliophile Society of Boston reprinted a limited
number of facsimiles from the manuscript which Bixby owned. Bixby then
printed a few more for presentation purposes, and here is one, numbered
#99.

CONDITION NOTES: Contents with minor soil, cloth case somewhat soiled,
cloth ties lacking.

PRICE: $75.00

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