Waller (Pickford Robert) A sketchbook with over 180 pp. of original drawings, designs, studies of ornament, interiors, and cuttings, including studies of birds and animals, flowers, furniture, ornament sketches for architecture, candlesticks, art nouveau design, and some internal studies of various rooms in Buckingham Palace, pen and inks, watercolours, printed cuttings, the cuttings all neatly tipped onto album leaves, the drawing executed directly onto the album leaves, each leaf approx. 92 x 152 mm (3 5/8 x 6 in), some light offsetting in places, minor surface dirt, Waller's bookplate to front pastedown, original crushed brown half morocco, gilt, spine gilt in compartments, in crushed brown half morocco drop-back box replicating binding, g.e., oblong 8vo, [circa 1900-1920s].

⁂ Pickford Waller (1849-1930) was an artist, illustrator and designer of bookplates, wallpapers and fabrics in the Art Nouveau style. He was a friend of Whistler and James Guthrie of the Pear Tree Press, for whom he worked on several books