Pickford R. Waller was a friend of J. McNeil Whistler and patronised many artists including S.H.Sime and Austin Osman Spare among others. He designed book-plates and book decorations in an art nouveau style such as the decorations to “Songs and Verses by Edmund Waller” which was published by his friend James Guthrie at the Pear Tree Press in 1902. Contrib: The Studio Magazine Vol. 8 1896 pp. 252-253.Ref: W.G.Blaikie Murdoch. Pickford Waller’s Book-Plates (Morland Press 1922).