JAMES HENRY Transatlantic Sketches. Boston: James R. Osgood 1875. Small 8vo, contemporary European cream half vellum and marbled boards, spine gilt, red and green morocco spine labels, red edges, wear along boards at edges, board sides a little rubbed; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of the author's second book, PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND FRANCIS BOOTT, inscribed by the author on front flyleaf: "Francis Boott [esq.?] with affectionate regards of H. James Jr. April 30th" (publication date was April 29); with a typographical correction on p. 303. Francis Boott was one of James's closest and most loyal friends. His daughter Elizabeth ("Lizzie") was the model for Pansy in The Portrait of a Lady and Francis himself was the basis for Gilbert Osmond in the same book. Leon Edel in his biography suggests that James also drew on the Boott's intense father-daughter attachment for his portrait of the Verners in The Golden Bowl (see Edel, Life , I, p. 254 and seq.). This copy was probably presented to Boott when he and Lizzie (both American expatriates living in Italy) and James were all visiting Cambridge, Mass., at the same time, in April of 1875. BAL 10530; Edel & Laurence A2a. See the Dr. Gerald E Slater sale, lot 360 (Christie's, New York, 12 February 1982) for a copy of The Princess Casamassima presented to Francis Boott. Provenance : James Gilvarry (sale, Christie's New York, 7 February 1986, lot 89).
JAMES HENRY Transatlantic Sketches. Boston: James R. Osgood 1875. Small 8vo, contemporary European cream half vellum and marbled boards, spine gilt, red and green morocco spine labels, red edges, wear along boards at edges, board sides a little rubbed; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of the author's second book, PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND FRANCIS BOOTT, inscribed by the author on front flyleaf: "Francis Boott [esq.?] with affectionate regards of H. James Jr. April 30th" (publication date was April 29); with a typographical correction on p. 303. Francis Boott was one of James's closest and most loyal friends. His daughter Elizabeth ("Lizzie") was the model for Pansy in The Portrait of a Lady and Francis himself was the basis for Gilbert Osmond in the same book. Leon Edel in his biography suggests that James also drew on the Boott's intense father-daughter attachment for his portrait of the Verners in The Golden Bowl (see Edel, Life , I, p. 254 and seq.). This copy was probably presented to Boott when he and Lizzie (both American expatriates living in Italy) and James were all visiting Cambridge, Mass., at the same time, in April of 1875. BAL 10530; Edel & Laurence A2a. See the Dr. Gerald E Slater sale, lot 360 (Christie's, New York, 12 February 1982) for a copy of The Princess Casamassima presented to Francis Boott. Provenance : James Gilvarry (sale, Christie's New York, 7 February 1986, lot 89).
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