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1914 · 971Z13 — London: Cassell and Company Limited 1914. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 11.5" by 8.5". Sir Alfred East; Philip A. Laszlo. The first edition of this celebration of Sir Alfred East's artwork featuring a series of his watercolour paintings and pencil sketches and a short biography on the artist's life by Edwin Bale. The first edition.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of East by P. A. Laszlo and thirty colour tipped in plates and monochrome sketches. Collated complete. A collection of reproductions of Sir Alfred Edward East's watercolour paintings and accompanying sketches. East was an English painter and the president of the 'Royal Society of British Artists'. The work also includes a short biography on the noted artist. In the publisher's original cloth. Lacking the very scarce original dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth. Lacking the very scarce original dust wrapper. Externally generally smart with light edge wear and a small closed tear to the cloth to the tail of the front joint and slight marks to the boards. Offsetting to the endpapers. Internally binding slightly strained in places. Pages very lightly age toned to the extremities with spotting throughout though the plates remain bright and generally clean occasional spotting to the versos. Significant closed tear nearly split in two to the plate face PP. 40. Very Good Cassell and Company Limited hardcover