[Rarebooks] fs: Morgan. Life Portraits of Washington, 1/100 copies, Signed

[Back Creek Books]

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Back Creek Books is pleased to offer:
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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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