[Rarebooks] fs: Portraits of Washington, 3 references
Back Creek Books
rock at backcreekbooks.com
Thu Feb 4 09:48:42 EST 2010
Greetings Booklovers,
We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 10208 ) Hart, Charles Henry (1847-1918). CATALOGUE OF THE ENGRAVED
PORTRAITS OF WASHINGTON.
New York: Grolier Club, 1903. Limited edition, Quarter vellum, Folio, xxvi,
406 pages, black and white plates. Near fine.
Comprehensive survey of the engraved likenesses of George Washington,
which took five years to complete. Many are reproduced in full page
facsimile. The frontispiece is a mezzotint engraved specially for this
volume by S. Arlent Edwards after an original oil painting from 1798 or
1799, thus immediately creating an engraving not described in the catalogue!
Published by the Grolier Club in an edition of only 425 copies. HOWES #H257.
Bound in slate blue paper over boards with vellum spine and corner tips,
gilt-stamped spine and boards, tissue-guarded frontispiece and plates,
deckle fore and bottom edges. Binding shows mild rubs and shallow bumps at
extremities, slight soil to spine....... $750.00
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(No. 10205 ) Knox, Katharine McCook. THE SHARPLES: THEIR PORTRAITS OF
GEORGE WASHINGTON AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES; A DIARY AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE
AND WORK OF JAMES SHARPLES AND HIS FAMILY IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. First printing, Full cloth, Quarto,
xvi, 133 pages, black and white photographs, illus.. Good.
Good account of this artistically gifted family and the portraits of
many founding Americans produced from life. Much of the information herein
is from the Frick Art Reference Library in New York. This copy has been
professionally restored after water damage to bottom edges, including
mending with archival tissue. Prior owner bookplate on front pastedown, name
at top of front free endpaper. Bound in maroon cloth over boards with spine
and upper board titled in black....... $50.00
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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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Best regards,
Rock
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Stieff, Frederick Philip. 'Baltimore - Annapolis Sketch Book.'
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