[Rarebooks] fs: Morgan. Life Portraits of Washington, Signed, #95/100

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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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