[Rarebooks] FS: Unusual 1920s Antique Silhouettes Catalog

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Jackson, F. Nevill. "CATALOGUE OF 3,800 NAMED AND DATED SILHOUETTE
PORTRAITS BY AUGUST EDOUART, 1789-1861, Silhouettist to the Royal Family
of France and to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester"

London; F. Nevill Jackson: no date (about 1923).

Edouart worked in Europe, England and America, and made duplicate
silhouettes for himself which he arranged in albums. In December of 1849
Edouart was returning to England from America when his ship ran aground.
In the wreck he was able to save only a few of the 50 or so albums of
silhouettes he had cut in America, and these albums were given to his
rescuers, descending in the family until they were purchased by Mrs. F.
Nevill Jackson in 1910. She used them as the basis for her books on
silhouettes, but broke up all but one of the albums and distributed the
contents. Here she provides an alphabetical list of all the silhouettes in
the albums, and offers photographic facsimiles of them at a price of 1
Pound, 10 shillings each. She also offers photographic facsimiles of the
contents of all dozen volumes for 800 Pounds a set.

Softcover. 5.5"x8.5", 32 pages, several b/w illustrations; printed on
stiff, wood-pulp paper which is now browned and brittle; covers with some
chips along the edges, a few closed tears; light internal soil. A fragile
catalog. [30861] $100.00

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