[Rarebooks] FS: Potter-Photographers copy of Ancient Pottery Catalog

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

A Noted Potter / Photographer's Copy-
  Chase, George H. "THE LOEB COLLECTION OF ARRETINE POTTERY"

New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1908.

"Arretine pottery takes its name from the ancient city of Arretium...in 
Tuscany, some fifty miles southeast of Florence." This elegant catalog of 
fine ancient pottery includes illustrations of many fragments and some 
intact examples.

The collector who assembled it, James Loeb [1867-1933] was a dedicated 
Classicist who collected pottery and bronzes, founded the Loeb Classical 
Library at Harvard and was a trustee of the American School of Classical 
Studies at Athens. He was also a founding member of the American Institute 
of Musical Art in New York, which later became the Juilliard School.

This copy of the catalog has the bookplate and ownership inscription of its 
(uncredited) photographer, Eric Ellis Soderholtz. Soderholtz was a 
Swedish-born architectural photographer who moved to Maine and illustrated 
such books as "Examples of Colonial Domestic Architecture in Maryland and 
Virginia" (1892), "Examples of Colonial Domestic Architecture in South 
Carolina and Georgia" (1900), "Examples of Colonial Domestic Architecture 
in New England" (1901), and "Colonial Architecture and Furniture" (1895).

He also made a line of garden pottery which became somewhat famous amongst 
gardeners, and which is very collectible today. This book includes a 
promotional card illustrating one of his garden pots which bears a striking 
resemblance to the Arretine pots illustrated in this catalog.

Hardcover. 9"x12", 167 pages, plus 23 b/w plates; paper covered boards, 
paper separating along the hinges, covers a bit scuffed; rear hinge 
separated with the rear cover; with the handsome illustrated bookplate for 
"Boreas Lodge -Eric Ellis Soderholtz", and a presentation plate from "the 
editors", with the penned note: "All photographs from which plates were 
made by EE Soderholtz May and June 1907". With a second, custom bound 
volume containing 19 tipped-in original photographs, presumably also taken 
by Soderholtz, of examples of intact and fragmented Arretine pottery. 
[08759] $275.00


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