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Edwin Davis French: A Memorial; His Life, His Art. Signed copy.
por BRAINARD, Ira Hutchinson
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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New York: Privately Printed, [The De Vinne Press], 1908. Limited edition, number 396 of 425 copies on handmade Italian paper, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated in ink by Ira Hutchinson Brainard to artist Wilford Seymour Conrow at the ffep & additionally signed by Mary Brainard French on a following leaf. Tall octavo (9.75" x 7"), xiii & 95 pages plus 13 plates. Publisher's light gray paper over boards backed in dark gray cloth, with a printed paper spine label. Publisher's prospectus dated 1907 laid-in. Edges uncut.
Binding soiled & moderately rubbed, text block beginning to crack in a couple of places (still secure), previous owner's bookplate at the front pastedown, sporadic minor foxing, otherwise good or better. Prospectus soiled & folded.
An important association copy from author Brainard to artist Wilford Seymour Conrow, whose bookplate is applied to the front pastedown. Noted for portrait painting, Conrow's art can be found at the National Portrait Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Hickory Museum of Art.
Provides a biographical sketch & an "authoritative list of [297] book-plates designed & engraved by French." The plates include a miniature engraving of Millet's 'Sower, at the title page, two portraits of French, ten "impressions on proof paper from the coppers of his less known book-plates," & a previously unpublished engraving of the Harvard Quadrangle.
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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 1813
- Título
- Edwin Davis French: A Memorial; His Life, His Art. Signed copy.
- Autor
- BRAINARD, Ira Hutchinson
- Estado do livro
- Usado
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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- Capa dura
- Editorial
- Privately Printed
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 1908
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- 0.00 libras
- Palavras-chave
- Edwin Davis French, Wilford Seymour Conrow, Ira Hutchinson Brainard, Signed, Book-plates, Reference, Engraving, Engravings
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Art; Books about Books; Printing, Typography, Fine Press; Reference; Biography, Autobiography; Signed;
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