ROTHENSTEIN, Will.
Oxford Characters. A Series of Lithographs.
A remarkable start to a career - Rothenstein was only 21 when he started work on this series, in which he mixed the don with the student, the academic with the sportsman. The influential philologist Max Müller is almost face to face with C.B. Fry who played both cricket and football for England; James Murray, first editor of the OED, bandies language with Max Beerbohm, whose “use of curious and obsolete words, as of boot-buttons in his cuffs, has earned him a place in a larger circle than that of Mr. Street’s elect”; Hilaire Belloc is next to the Reverend Charles Daniel, the great hobby printer.
Binding rather strained, and with some signs of use, but the lithographs are in fine shape.
