Ballads and Lyrics of Love -

London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. Ballads and Lyrics of Love," Illustrated by Byam Shaw [SHAW, Byam, illustrator]. [SIDGWICK, Frank, editor]. Ballads and Lyrics of Love. Edited with an Introduction by Frank Sidgwick. Illustrated after Byam Shaw. London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. Special Edition. Limited to 260 numbered copies (this copy being No. 18). Quarto (10 x 7 1/2 inches; 255 x 190 mm.). xvii, [1, blank], 178, [2] pp. Ten mounted color plates (including frontispiece), with descriptive tissue guards. Original vellum over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Light green marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing to spine and to extremities. Armorial bookplate of Stanley W. Rogers on front pastedown. A near fine copy. Selected from Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). John Byam Liston Shaw (1872-1919), commonly known as Byam Shaw, was a British painter, illustrator, designer and teacher. In 1899 Byam Shaw married the artist Evelyn Caroline Eunice Pyke-Nott, later known as Evelyn CE Shaw (1870-1959). Evelyn's sister was Isabel Codrington, another early twentieth century artist. Throughout his career Byam Shaw worked competently in a wide variety of media including oils, watercolor, pastels, pen and ink and deployed techniques such as dyeing and gilding. He was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and took many of his subjects from the poems of Rossetti. He exhibited frequently at Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell's gallery in New Bond Street, where he had at least five solo exhibitions between 1896 and 1916. Later in his life his popularity as an artist waned,and he turned to teaching for his living. He taught at the Women's Department of King's College London from 1904 and in 1910, with Rex Vicat Cole, he founded the Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art later renamed simply the "Byam Shaw School of Art". Evelyn Shaw had an active role in the new school, teaching the miniatures class, her area of expertise. Shaw had had a long association with the artist and illustrator Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, who taught at the new school.