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"Rex Whistler Designed 1931 Bookplate For Kenneth Rae"
$250
VG
4.25" x 3.25"
Rae was one of the directors at the Cobden-Sanderson publishing house
A collotype made in 1931 for Kenneth Rae as his bookplate. This is the most perfect example of Whistler’s whimsy: a combination of frivolity and mortality. Appropriately, the Rococo cartouche bearing the name of the book publisher supports a pile of books, but it’s accompanied by a skull and flowers