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Six sketchbooks. 8 x 17 cm. Numbered: Volume 2 to Volume 7. On 796 painted pages several thousand pen drawings and watercolour designs. Volume 3, 4, 6, and 7 with Art Nouveau ornaments. In volume 2 and partly in volume 5 sketches for architecture, furniture, candlesticks, crowns, weapons, iron grids, railings, vessels, musical instruments, exlibris, flowers, leaves and animals. All volumes with Pickford Waller exlibris and artist monogram at the end, various single sheets monogramed. Marbled attachment, circulating goldcut, leather backing with gold embossing. All volumes by the London bookbinder Joseph William Zaehnsdorf, son of Josef Zaehnsdorf.

Band IV partially slightly spotted. - Waller, draughtsman, draft artist, illustrator, designer, art collector. Son of the master builder Robert John Waller. Worked on several books for the Pear Tree Press. James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Sketchbooks at London's National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum. - 6 Sketch Books. Several thousand pen and ink drawings and watercolour drafts on 796 handcol. pages.

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