Dec 01, 2016 - Sale 2433

Sale 2433 - Lot 248

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
WHISTLER, JAMES McNEILL. Mr. Whistler's "Ten O'Clock." 29, [2] pages. Thin, small 8vo, tan wrappers printed in black; custom gilt-lettered tan pigskin folding case. first edition. inscribed by whistler and signed with his butterfly monogram on title-page. The first separately published appearance of Whistler's lecture which was first delivered in London, Cambridge, and Oxford in February, March & April of 1885 in response to his irritation at Oscar Wilde's encroachment of his aesthetic theories and intellectual preserve. London: Chatto & Windus, 1888