[1889 pamphlet.] Illustrated Catalogue and Programme of Music of the May Day Conversazione and Exhibition, in connection with the Richmond Athenaeum and the Selborne Society (Lower Thames Valley Branch,) held at the Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond.

Author: 
Edward King, editor [The Richmond Athenaeum and the Selborne Society (Lower Thames Valley branch)]
Publication details: 
On Wednesday, May 1st, 1889. ['Richmond, Surrey: Edited and Printed by Edward King, "Times" Steam Printing Works.']
£95.00
SKU: 10007

4to, 68 + viii pp. Frontispiece and eight plates, as well as numerous illustrations in text. In original printed wraps, with advertisements. Eight pages of advertisements at end. Text and illustrations clear and complete. A scarce item (the only copy on COPAC at the V & A Libraries) on aged paper, in chipped and worn wraps, with title page creased, and some sections detached. Inscribed by the editor, at head of front wrap, 'From Edward King | to his Brother Savage W. Linnell | In Memory of a joyous afternoon in Venice. | Nov. 3/94.' A nicely printed item, whose purpose, according to the 'Note by the Editor', is to 'be the means of inspiring a fresh interest in the Arts, the Sylvan Beauties, the Literature, the Natural History, and the Antiquities of the Lower Thames Valley'. The plates include portraits of Sir Frederick Leighton, J. M. W. Turner and Sir Richard Owen.