Lot 196
  • 196

Coburn, Alvin Langdon

Estimate
1,800 - 2,500 USD
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Description

  • Moor Park, Rickmansworth. London: Elkin Mathews, 1915.
  • paper, ink
4to (9 1/4 x 7 3/8 in.; 228 x 185 mm). 20 photogravures, mounted-in as issued. Original green printed boards; extremities lightly rubbed. 

Catalogue Note

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscription by Coburn to Lord Donoughmore to front free endpaper: "from one photographer to another and in memory of a pleasant chat at Wrexham," and dated 21 October 1938. Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 6th Earl of Donoughmore, was an Irish peer and Conservative politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for War under Arthur Balfour between 1903 and 1905.