Author: Rupert Hart-Davis
Title: A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm
Description: Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1972. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this catalogue of the caricatures of English caricaturist and humorist Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm. First edition. Illustrated with sixty-three plates with one hundred caricatures and captions chosen to represent various aspects of Max's best work. Collated complete. A detailed catalogue of over two thousand caricatures and captions of Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm, an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max who first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. With a brief description and particulars of where the work exhibited or was published, how it has been reproduced and its present ownership. With explanatory notes to elucidate the point of jokes now forgotten or obscure. Compiled by Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis, an English publisher and editor. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear to the extremities and sunning to the spine. A small closed tear to the front panel. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Max Beerbohm. Fine/Very Good Indeed.

Keywords: Catalogue Caricatures Beerbohm Hart-Davis Caricatures Max Beerbohm


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