Product Description
Very Good; spine a little cocked; minor rubbing/bumping to extremities; some scattered soil/stains to cloth; else Fine.
Hinges sound, pages clean and bright.
No dust jacket.
First Edition.
M.
L.
Solon (1835 - 1913) was a French porcelain artist.
After beginning his career at the Sèvres Pottery, he moved to Stoke-on-Trent in 1870 to work at Mintons Ltd, where he became the leading exponent of the technique of ceramic decoration called pate-sur-pate.
His work commanded high prices in the late Victorian period.
The letter is folded once, with "The Villas, Stoke-on-Trent" embossed at the head of page one, written on four "pages, then folded again.
It reads in part "April 20th, [18?]96.
Dear M.
Barber, I much regret to say that I have no good photos to send you.
I am one of the rare ones who have never applied to a professional photographer to obtain their presentment.
At the time when my boys amused themselves by taking a few bad negatives--under the flattering illusion that they were practicing photography--they took my portrait several times.
Of these only the worst are now remaining.
However, rather than appear unwilling to comply with your request I send you the two unique proofs in my possession.
" His correspondent was Edwin Atlee Barber (1851 - 1916), an American archaeologist and author, and a scholar of ceramics.
One of the two photos is mounted on a card, with cropping marks around the subject, and a note indicating that it would be used in a paper of Barber's that appeared in the Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum.
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