MACQUOID, Percy. – George ALEXANDER. The George Alexander Birthday Book. London: John Lane, 19

MACQUOID, Percy. – George ALEXANDER. The George Alexander Birthday Book. London: John Lane, 1903. Signed and inscribed by George Alexander to Percy Macquoid, 8vo (189 x 120mm.) Photogravure portrait frontispiece, several names signed under their birth-date with their own signatures, including that of George Alexander and Percy Macquoid. (Toning, browning to title-page.) Original cream cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (minor soiling to covers). Note: George Alexander was an actor and manager of the St. James Theatre. He produced two Oscar Wilde plays as well as Henry James’ less successful, Guy Domville. Provenance: Percy Macquoid, author and artist (name inscribed to on the front-free endpaper). – And a further six volumes owned by or related to Percy Macquoid (including Henri Dethauny’s [Repertoire de Couleurs pour aider a la determination des Couleurs des Fleurs, des Feuillages et des Fruits, 1905], 8vo, which has a mounted paper label on the upper cover and in manuscript hand the words: ‘Percy Macquoid, not to be taken under any circumstances’, and also Lewis Carroll’s ‘Sylvie and Bruno’, 1889, 8vo, inscribed to Percy Macquoid by his parents) (7).