TO REMEMBER RAY FREDERICK COYLE: SIX REPRODUCTIONS OF HIS...
Limited to 210 numbered copies (See Robert D. Harlan, John Henry Nash: The Biography of a Career (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970), 81-2 and Neil O'Day (compiler), A Catalogue of Books Printed by John Henry Nash (San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1937), 48). Includes sonnet dedicated to Coyle by George Sterling and a foreword by Nash. Dedication to Albert Maurice Bender and William Randolph Keltie Young. Six reproductions of the work of illustrator Ray Frederick Coyle (1885-1924), born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, educated at Princeton and Edinburgh. He established an interior decorating business in fhe San Francisco Bay area. Six plates by Coyle in his Art Nouveau style, two gilt-embellished. Coyle worked closely with Nash; correspondence between the two is included in the Nash papers in Special Collections, Bancroft Libray, University of California, Berkeley, collection BANC, MSS 72/245 c. Spine label slightly chipped, boards faded along edges, edge wear.

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