[Rarebooks] FS - The Engraved Powder Horn, 436 color plates and cuts

[Michael Watson]

FS - The Engraved Powder Horn, 436 color plates and cuts

Dresslar, Jim
The Engraved Powder Horn: Folk Art of Early America
Dresslar Publishing, 1996, Bargersville IN, large wide 8vo, 9 1/4" x 12
1/4", 240pp, F/VG+

Describes 110 carved or engraved American Colonial-era powder horns.
Features 436 color photos that reflect the wide variety of subjects and
artistic expression of the carver. The powder horn was an essential
accessory to the long rifle for food-gathering, defense, and general
survival of the American colonist.

SIGNED and briefly inscribed by the author. This book's examples
illustrate the craft and the personal expression applied to these
utilitarian articles that could often depict maps, animals, armies, and
people. Some horns were very personal, depicting events and loved ones.

This copy the self-published 1st edition and not the later printings
from Scurlock Publishing. Absolutely the finest photography, book
design, and quality of any self-published work I've ever seen. Superior
to many trade-published books of this nature.

DJ has slight, short wrinkles to the head edge of the front and back and
the head at the spine. A nick or two to the color.

The book is absolutely clean, as-new (except for that damned author
inscription...) and Fine in a VG+ DJ.

$100 USD plus an additional $6.00 for shipping in the USA. Others please
inquire.

The photos, they're large, be patient:

Cover:
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Signature:
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The Plates and Cuts:
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