1914. 1st Edition. 118pp. Decorated cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering front and spine. Top edge gilt. Spine tanned, some discoloration to cloth. n red and black, some marks. Some foxing to margins and text block edge. Frontispiece has tissued-guarded frontispiece, a further 120 plate illustrations of which 13 are in colour and tissue-guarded. An extensive exploration of the life and work of the English painter, lithographer and designer Charles Conder (1868-1909), a key figure in the Heidelberg school of art. Also included is a catalogue from an exhibition of Conder's works in Millbank Gallery, 1927 and a bill of sale dated 1914 for 4 signed lithographs by Conder, illustrations of which are in the book. There are light pencil marks referring to these 4 works on the ffp and on the list of illustrations.