[Rarebooks] FS: James McNeil Whistler - "TEN O'CLOCK" - Swinburne Review Limited Facsimile

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

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

Published in St.Louis, around 1912/3.

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.

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. Contents with minor soil, cloth case somewhat soiled, 
cloth ties lacking. $75

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