Lot 203: SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD (1856-1950, playwright, literary and theatre critic, Fabian)

PORTRAIT BY HOWARD COSTER (1885-1959), vintage photograph, silver print on textured paper (looking like material), head and shoulders looking to the left, SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY SHAW, signed on the photograph and on the original mount ('G. Bernard Shaw'), inscribed to Mary Lawton 13 November 1936, the original mount also signed by Howard Coster, some oxidisation to the silver, framed and glazed, size of image 11½ x 8¼ inches (25 x 20.5 cm), overall size 17 x 13 inches (43 x 33 cm), 1936