Eden versus Whistler, The Baronet & the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict

Paris: Louis-Henry May. 1899.

First trade edition. 8vo. 203x155mm. pp. [28], 78, [5, 1bl]. Cloth backed, paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt with a flower motif in gilt to upper cover and spine. Corners rubbed worn and frayed and some staining to the boards. Some foxing and browning but otherwise very good internally. This is Whistler's account of the legal dispute with Sir William Eden over his portrait of Lady Eden. Whistler won but not before a newspaper recounted how "Mr Whistler has really surpassed himself in the gentle art of making enemies".