Author: (Meryon, Charles). Wedmore, Frederick.
Title: Meryon and Meryon's Paris with a Descriptive Catalogue of the Artist's Work.
Description: London: Deprez & Gutekunst, 1892. 1892. - Octavo, reddish brown buckram with a printed label on the spine. The binding is rubbed, bumped & unevenly faded with 2 stains to the front cover. The titling on the label is mostly rubbed away. 86 deckle-edged pages plus 1-page publisher's catalog & colophon. A previous owner has tipped in a black-and-white portrait frontispiece. The rear endpaper is darkened & there is offsetting to the front endpaper from the bookplate. The front edges of a few pages are darkened. Good.

Second edition, revised and enlarged, limited to 129 copies, of which this is copy number 57.

From the library of Chauncey Lawrence Williams with his bookplate mounted on the front pastedown. The bookplate is by New York artist George R. Halm [1850-1899].

Chauncey Lawrence Williams, a prominent Chicago businessman and social figure, was a partner, with W. Irving Way, in Way & Williams, the publishing firm that issued L. Frank Baum's first book "Mother Goose in Prose" in 1897. Williams, who was originally from Wisconsin, was a friend and classmate of Frank Lloyd Wright and in 1893 commissioned Wright to design his home, the Chauncey Williams House in River Forest, Illinois. Way & Williams was a short-lived company, but Williams was also associated with other projects to promote high-quality printing, including the Caxton Club, and the Auvergne Press, which he founded. Good .

Keywords: ART; FRENCH ART; ARTIST; CHARLES MERYON; MERYON AND MERYON'S PARIS; FREDERICK WEDMORE; DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF MERYON'S WORK; BOOKPLATE; GEORGE R. HALM; CHAUNCEY LAWRENCE WILLIAMS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; LIMITED EDITION.

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