1867 Scarce 1stED - Pre -Raphaelite John Everett Millais signed letter - LILLIPUT LEVEE.

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 (Description) 

Author: (William Brighty Rands). (Illustrated by John Everett Millais, C. Green, G. J. Pinwell and B. Bradley).
Title: LILLIPUT LEVEE. Poems of childhood, child-fancy, and child-like moods.
Publisher: London, Alexander Strahan, Publisher, 1867. First Edition.
Language: Text in English.  
Size: 5.5 " X 4.5 ".
Pages: viii-209 pages.
Binding: Very good and attractive original ornate gilt-stamped design full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges gilt.
Content: Very good content including an authentic autograph letter signed by John Everett Millais (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown, small bookseller stamp on last endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Beautifully illustrated by John Everett Millais, C. Green, G. J. Pinwell and B. Bradley.

The book: Scarce and attractive first edition of those Poems of childhood - LILLIPUT LEVEE with a rare autograph letter signed by John Everett Millais.

The illustrator: Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). Millais became the most famous exponent of the style, his painting Christ in the House of His Parents (1849–50) generating considerable controversy, and he produced a picture that could serve as the embodiment of the historical and naturalist focus of the group, Ophelia, in 1851–52. By the mid-1850s, Millais was moving away from the Pre-Raphaelite style to develop a new form of realism in his art. His later works were enormously successful, making Millais one of the wealthiest artists of his day, but some former admirers including William Morris saw this as a sell-out (Millais notoriously allowed one of his paintings to be used for a sentimental soap advertisement). While these and early 20th-century critics, reading art through the lens of Modernism, viewed much of his later production as wanting, this perspective has changed in recent decades, as his later works have come to be seen in the context of wider changes and advanced tendencies in the broader late nineteenth-century art world, and can now be seen as predictive of the art world of the present.

The author: William Brighty Rands (24 December 1823, Chelsea, Middlesex — 23 April 1882 at the age of 58, East Dulwich, London) was a British writer and one of the major authors of nursery rhymes of the Victorian era. He studied from age 8 to 13. He was mostly self-taught. He joined parliament but left due to poor health. His pen names are Matthew Browne, Henry Holbeach, and T.Talker.