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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. Loose binding. Year 1920. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> SOME twelve years ago the mention of George Baxter’s name among the lovers and collectors of Colour Prints would have aroused no enthusiasm. To-day it is not so however. Yet when in Messrs. Puttick & Simpson’s Sale- room the gems are being shown around the table the high bidding of eager dealers and collectors-bidding which seems to recognise no law but possession-is being voiced from the rostrum my thoughts stray away back to those Nineteenth Century days when the print shops of the Country were full of the productions of this indefatigable Artist and worker. I think of Baxter himself content to sell his work for a few pence or shillings to supply in his own words “Pictures for the Million.” little realizing that the hand of time would see them change to pounds and pounds which would have for the Artist himself spelt fame and fortune. It is the intention of the Editor to issue this work in twelve parts and to place Pictorially before the public the pictures which the hand and brain of this pioneer of Colour Printers weaved. By pictures is meant the prints which Baxter produced for sale either on lettered or stamped mounts and which number about one hundred and sixty-five. Through the pages of the various parts will be found interesting matter dealing with Baxter’s works. Commencing with Part 1 there will be “A Chronology of Baxter’s Prints”; together with 1920 Auction values; these Auction values are given for the guidance of the Collector as to value. It should be borne in mind however that these prices are being dominated. month by month by the obvious fact that each month increases the difficulty of obtaining fine prints and in many instances the present prices given are nearly double those ruling twelve months ago. (OS)