[Rarebooks] FS: Loeb Collection of Arretine Pottery

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Chase, George H.  "THE LOEB COLLECTION OF ARRETINE POTTERY"

New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1908.

This elegant catalog of fine pottery from the ancient city of Arretium, in
Tuscany, 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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