The Life of a Painter. London: Cassell, 1940. First Edition. Pp , 267. Lavender cloth boards, title in gilt to spine, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. Spotting to fore-edge, otherwise a fine bright copy.

Illustrated with 69 Photogravure plates.

Lively anecdotes and memories by the renowned Irish portrait painter John Lavery. He painted in the first half of the 20th century and regularly hobnobbed with the great and good of English high society.