THE STUDIO. - Charles HOLME and Geoffrey Charles HOLME (editors). The Studio - An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. London: Offices of the Studio, 1893-1977. 259 vols., 4to (244 x 179mm to 289 x 204mm.) Plates and illustrations, many coloured or tinted by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Aubrey Beardsley, Frank Brangwyn, William Nicholson, Robert Anning Bell, Joseph Pennell, Mortimer Menpes and many others. (Toning to margins, occasional creasing, stamps throughout.) Early 20th century red half-morocco (203), modern red cloth (31), original green cloth (20) or early 20th century brown half-calf with green lettering pieces to the spine (5) (wear to spine ends, rubbing to extremities). Note: a complete run of 160 volumes of 'The Studio' from its inception in 1863 to its end in 1963. It then became absorbed into 'Studio International' and a run of 27 volumes of this from 1964 until 1977 are included. Also a run of 55 volumes of 'Studio Specials' from 1893-1941 and 'The Royal Academy', 1904, and 'Art in England', 1908, 'Winter Numbers', 1898-1900, 'Art Revival in Austria', 1906, 'Art at the New Gallery and Paris Salon, 1899', 'General Index, volumes 22-42' and some duplicate volumes. The collection includes the 5 Whistler lithographs with 'Gants de Suede', 'The Long Gallery' and 'La Robe Rouge' being without library stamps and a duplicate of vol. III contains an additional 2 Whistler lithographs, 'Gants de Suede' and 'The Long Gallery' also without library stamps. Provenance: Worthing Public Library (labels to pastedowns) (259).