Product Description
Signed by Laurence Whistler.
Ltd edition 405/550.
Full page illustration on frontis piece and illustrations throughout, all engravings in a white light against a dark background.
Slight foxing to front free end paper.
Black cloth covered boards, gilt impression on front and gilt titling on spine.
A few tiny white shelving paint marks along bottom edge including the edge of the foot of the spine, minor dustiness.
Otherwise near fine.
Glassine cover is wrinkled and creased, 3cm and 4cm jagged sections are missing from head and foot of spine.
Fine.
Loosely inserted is a slip of paper from the Cupid Press stating that this is a review copy, the ltd edition and set date of publication.
Acquired from Maude Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s.
With her husband, Nigel Gosling a renowned art critic, she later wrote, influential dance books and reviews under the joint pseudonym, 'Alexander Bland'.
When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, Margot Fonteyn asked them to befriend him which they gladly did offering him freedom of their house.
Gosling edited his autobiography.
Nureyev wrote an admiring memoir of him in Observer of the Dance anthologising Goslings reviews, "He and Maude were like my family.
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