1903-1905 The Printseller & Collector; The Collector's Magazine

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding

Offering the following contents from The Collector's Magazine, published under the title The Printseller & Collector for Volume I. 

An uncommon collection of this monthly journal devoted to prints, pictures, rare books, manuscripts, early examples of China, miniatures, tapestry and many other antiques. 

Illustrated throughout with many in-text and full-page images and figures.

Volume I (titled The Printseller & Collector) comprises all issues from January to December 1903. Illustrated with 
Volume II (titled The Collector's Magazine with which is Incorporated the Printseller and Collector) All issues from January-December 1904. With a colour frontispiece.
Volume III - Includes issues for February-May 1905 (No. 25 - No. 29). With a tipped-in colour frontispiece to Issue No. 25.

Volume I and II edited by the magazine's founder, Stanley Elston Austin, an art critic, journalist and prominent figure in the art circles of London and Paris. He wrote for publications including Vanity Fair and wrote a book on the history of engraving.

Volume III edited by Austin and Richard Sydney Glover, who served with the Artist Rifles during the First World War and exhibited at the Royal Academy. He was the first editor of Apollo, the International Art Magazine from 1925-1929.

Each front paste down bears a decorative bookplate printed with the name Mackmurdo. A suggestive association with English architect and designer Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo, who heavily influenced the Arts and Crafts Movement when he set up the Century Guild of Artists with Herbert Home in 1882. Whilst there is a chance this bookplate was designed for someone else and signed by Mackmurdo, examples of that happening usually bear the owner's name, not his. We therefore cannot be absolutely sure of whether this set lived in his library, but the date given to the plate (1880) and the publication date of this work would fall into his lifetime.