xv, 243 p., XLVI leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 39 cm.
General Note
Title-pages in red and black.
Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
Contents
Foreword / Sir James Guthrie, P.R.S.A. Ll. D -- Biography / Sir James L. Caw -- I. Beginnings -- II. Brig o’Turk and Crowland -- III. Cockburnspath -- IV. `The Glasgow School’ -- V. Early portraits -- VI. Widening reputation and influence -- VII. The pastels -- VIII. The Grosvenor Gallery and Germany -- IX. Glasgow, 1890-1895 -- X. Glasgow and London, 1894-1902 -- XI. Portraits of the nineties -- XII. P.R.S.A. Part I: 1902-1911 -- XIII. P.R.S.A. Part II: 1911-1919 -- XIV. Life in Edinburgh -- XV. The art of his maturity -- XVI. `Some statesmen of the Great War’ -- XVII. Later years -- XVIII. Personality -- XIX. Sitting to Guthrie -- XX. Ideas on art teaching and on art -- Guthrie: the man and interpreter/ Frank Rinder -- Personal memories of James Guthrie / John Warrack -- Catalogue of works: Oil pictures -- Pastels -- llustrations, etc. -- Index of portraits -- General index
Binding Note
Red cloth-covered bevelled-edged boards with gilt title on upper cover. Top edge gilt, fore-edge and tail deckle-edged paper. Lettered in gilt on spine `James Guthrie. A Biography. Sir James L Caw. Macmillan'