[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: GIBSON GIRLS

[Norman Kane]

GIBSON, CHARLES DANA.  DRAWINGS.  N. Y.: R. H. Russell; London: John Lane, 1898.  Large oblong folio, original cloth-backed pictorial boards with areas of dust-soiling. edges rubbed, interior clean.  Consists largely of satiric sketches with accompanying captions, many portraying American beauties married to dull, titled Englishmen,or the marriage market in general.  But he also weighs in on artists, jurors, Parisian street scenes, &c.  The sketchbook of a clever, perceptive artist whose drawings came to epitomize the American society belle of the period.   $90.00

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