"Rex Whistler The Konigsmark Drawings" 1952 WHISTLER, Laurence Alexis Baron de Rede w/ Lester Piggott on cover

w/ Lester Piggott on cover by Hynes

25"The life of Edward

Ranging from the 'late Earl of Kelly' to the drunken dog of New York

who called herself "Calamity" Jane and avoided men for fear of the disaster she was sure she would bring them

" --Architectural Digest

"Rex Whistler The Konigsmark Drawings" 1952 WHISTLER, Laurence Alexis Baron de Rede w/ Lester Piggott on coverWHISTLER, Laurence w [24] pp. & 10 plates The Richards Press 1952 One thousand copies have been printed this copy is no. 408 13" x 11 1 2" This work completed by Whistler during the heat wave in the summer of 1941 while serving in the Welsh Guards during WW II. Whistler illustrates Mason's romantic tale from the days of the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV in a setting of German Baroque palaces and gardens.