Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

London: Gay and Bird, 1900. First edition. 8vo. Inscribed on verso of front blank "To Henry Steel Davidson From Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh and Charles Rennie Mackintosh Christmas 1900." Illustrated by Carton Moore Park. Publisher's olive green cloth, stamped in black, red and green, lightly soiled. Illustrated endpapers. Laid in is a four-page folded manuscript ("Kitty's Books") on Windyhill / Kilmacolm stationery, dated from 1883-1928.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, and artist, whose work, along with his wife Margaret (1864-1933), were defining features of the Glasgow Style of the 1890s.

Mackintosh became acquainted with the Davidson family around 1894/95 and was commissioned in 1900 to design their new home, Windyhill, in Kilmacolm, Scotland. The Davidsons remained lifelong friends and supporters of Mackintosh and his wife Margaret MacDonald. From 1898 (or earlier) until 1905 (or later) Mackintosh gave Mr. and Mrs. Davidson, and each of their sons, Christmas gifts of books inscribed by Mackintosh until 1899 and, from 1900, following their marriage, inscribed by Charles and Margaret Mackintosh.