Featured Artist GEORGE FLEMWELL - a scrapbook

Could this be the picture           ----» that George Flemwell  was finishing when he saw Victor Grayson for the last time? 157 George Flemwell (Eng. 19th/20th Cent.). Sail Boats at Dusk. Signed and dated 1920. Watercolor. Exhibited 1892-1910. 17" x 26 1/2"
		158 George Flemwell (Eng. 19th/20th Cent.). Snowscape. Signed and dated 1921. Watercolor.Exhibited 1892-1910. 23" x 18". FLEMWELL G. ALPINE FLOWERS AND GARDENS. London: A and C Black, 1910. [3963] FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 167, 20 colour illustrations, original green decorative cloth, t.e.g., corners slightly bumped. £20		Flemwell, Georges Villars-Chesieres-Bretaye Lithograph ca. 1920 40.1 x 28.3 in. (102 x 72 cm) (A) moun ted on linen, three tiny surface scratches Sold for $1,600
Flemwell, Georges Lausanne-Ouchy Plage Lithograph 1926 39.3 x 25.5 in. (100 x 65 cm) small tears at the edges\line. Sold for: $1,100.

FLEMWELL, G.; Alpine Flowers and Gardens. London, A. & C. Black, 1910, First edition, 8vo [22.5 x 16.5 cm]; xiv, 167 pp, 20 color plates including frontis painted by Flemwell, with captioned tissue guards, index, orig green cloth with a floral design in white & light green on the front and spine, gilt lettering, t. e. g., light rubbing on edge, very little foxing on few leaves, else near fine condition.
Inman 123. Only 3,000 copies were printed of this first edition, with a reprint in 1916. Attractive book with lovely plates.
US$55. bookID # 5444

FLEMWELL, G.; The Flower-Fields of Alpine Switzerland; An Appreciation and a Plea. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1911, First edition, 8vo [22.5 x 17 cm]; xviii, [i, note on water-colours), 195 pp, 26 fine color plates from the author's paintings, tipped in on art paper, each with tissue guard and letter-press, index, orig pictorial gilt cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, small bookplate of Charles Whitfield on endpaper, rubbed at edges, spine a little faded, a very good clean copy, internally fine.
"Will be consulted with pleasure by gardeners as well as by alpinist and lovers of nature generally". (The author, a premier alpine botanist and alpine artist, describes his travels and the flowers in the Alps, especially in the springtime, and makes an early plea for their conservation.
US$90. bookID # 5568

353. (Flowers - Alpine) Flemwell, G. Sur L'Alpe Fleurie: Promenades Poétiques et Philosophiques dans les Alpes. Illus. incl. 20 color plates from paintings by Flemwell; printed tissue guards. 10x6-1/2, original printed wrappers. First French Edition. Paris: Payot, [1914]. Mild soiling to wrappers, tear along spine, else extremely good. (100/150).

 

FLEMWELL, G., preface by Henry Correvon; Sur L'Alpe Fleurie Promenades Poetiques et Philophiques dans les Alpes. Paris, Societe D'Edition des Sciences Naturelles, [1914], First edition in French, second thousand, 8vo [25 x 17 cm]; xi, 248, [i] pp, frontis, fine color plates from author's paintings, with tissue guards and letterpress, other illus in text, index, orig pictorial wraps, partly unopened, small chip at lower edge, old price sticker partly removed, very light soiling, very good.
The flora of the alps with excellent paintings, and in the original covers as issued.
US$35. bookID # 359566

 

FLEMWELL, G. Chamonix. Blackie and Son Limited, [1913]. Square 8vo. Original printed boards, coloured plate of the Mer de Glace mounted to upper cover; pp. 64; 12 coloured plates; minor rubbing to extremities, else a very good copy. £68.00

 

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