Rothenstein (William) The French Set, one of 50 sets, 3 lithographed portraits of Rodin, Fantin-Latour and Alphonse Legros, some light browning, original printed wrappers, uncut, frayed at edges, 1898; Liber Juniorum, 6 lithographed portraits including Beardsley, Beerbohm and W.B.Yeats, 4 signed in pencil, the others in the plate, tipped to blank leaves (becoming loose), mounts foxed and soiled, frayed at edges, loose as issued in original cloth portfolio, lacking ties and most flaps, worn, 1899, both inscribed by the artist to John Fothergill, folio (2)

⁂ John Fothergill (1876-1957), author of An Innkeeper's Diary, and owner of the Spread Eagle hotel in Thame, the famous haunt of many literary and artistic figures of his day, including George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Rebecca West, G. K. Chesterton and Evelyn Waugh. He was a contemporary of William Rothenstein's at the Slade School of Fine Art, along with Augustus John and Jacob Epstein.