[Rarebooks] fs: Life Portraits of Washington, 1/100, signed

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings Booklovers,

We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 10209 )  Morgan, John Hill and Mantle Fielding. THE LIFE PORTRAITS OF 
WASHINGTON AND THEIR REPLICAS (SIGNED).
Philadelphia: Printed for the Subscribers, (1931). Limited edition, Full 
leather, Folio, xxiv, 432 pages, black and white plates. very good in a good 
dust jacket, slipcased.
      An ambitious attempt to catalogue the work of the 27 painters and 
sculptors for whom George Washington sat during his lifetime. Illustrated 
with numerous full page tissue-guarded plates reproducing these likenesses. 
Many works by Gilbert Stuart, Charles Willson Peale, Jean Antoine Houdon, 
John Ramage, James Sharples, and the like. Also includes a section on 
fictitious portraits, where the artist is unknown, the work is a composite, 
etc. This is copy is #95 of the special edition of only 100, extra 
illustrated specially bound in gilt-stamped red morocco, numbered and SIGNED 
by both authors. Chipping at head and heel of spine, shallow bump at lower 
fore corner of upper board. Jacket has a 1" triangular chip at head of 
spine, shallow chipping along heel of spine. Slipcase bound in red cloth 
shows some wear, slightly split along one short seam....... $1000.00
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