Author: Lindsay, Sir Coutts [1824 - 1913]. Edward, Prince of Wales [1330 - 1376] - Subject. 
Title: EDWARD The BLACK PRINCE. A Tragedy
Description: London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED presentation copy from the author, signed with his initials. Original publisher's dark green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & boards stamped in blind. 218, [2 (blank)], 32 pp. 32 page publisher catalogue [dated May 1846] concludes volume. 12mo. 7" x 4-1/2". Square & tight. Spine lightly sunned. Author's inscription to the ffep. Binder's ticket [Westleys & Clark] to rear paste-down. E7 & E8 roughly opened. Withal, a pleasing VG+ copy. Coutts Lindsay is primarily remembered today as an artist & watercolorist, who, with his first wife, Lady Lindsay (of Balcarres), founded the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877 as an alternative to the Royal Academy. It was devoted to exhibiting works by the Pre-Raphaelites (then held to be too stylistically advanced for the Royal Academy) and becoming the focus of the Aesthetic Movement from then until its closure in 1890. Its inaugural exhibition on 1 May 1877 included James Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, leading to the famous libel trial between Whistler and John Ruskin. Coutts was important to the careers of Coutts' friends Whistler and George Frederic Watts in providing a sympathetic venue for the display of their work. However, the gallery declined after Lindsay separated from his first wife, and it closed in 1890.

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