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The Bookplate Design of Rex Whistler. 

[Pinner,] Private Libraries Association for the Bookplate Society, 1973. 

8vo, pp. 39, [3], ff. [41 (plates)], with a tipped-on frontispiece; a fine copy, in the original pale blue cloth, spine decorated in black and gilt, acetate dust-jacket, black slipcase; bookplate of the bibliophile and BBC broadcaster D. G. Bridson.

£350

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First edition, one of 350 copies with a tipped-on rather than a printed frontispiece, a fully-illustrated catalogue of Whistler’s designs for the bookplates of Osbert Sitwell, Lady Diana Duff Cooper, Victor Rothschild, Pamela Countess of Lytton etc. 

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