[Rarebooks] FS: Antique Ghiordes Rugs -1916 Ballard Collection Limited Edition

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

“Illustrated Catalogue and Descriptions of Ghiordes Rugs of the 
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries from the Collection of James F. 
Ballard, St. Louis, Mo.”

Published in St. Louis by The Oriental Publishing Company in 1916.
Edition limited to 100 numbered and signed copies.

James F. Ballard was a perfectly happy and wealthy St. Louis drug 
manufacturer when he bought his first oriental rug while walking down a 
street in New York in 1905. From there he went on to rapidly amass one 
of the greatest and most important private collections of oriental 
carpets in American history. As O'Bannon points out in an article for 
Oriental Rug Review (Vol.II/3), one of the things that makes the Ballard 
Collection unique, aside from the large number of great rugs it 
contained, was that it was put together with the intent that it would be 
donated to museums for the enjoyment and education of the public. The 
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the St. Louis Museum of Art 
were the primary benefactors; in fact, the first rugs were donated to 
the Met. in 1922 when Ballard invited Joseph Breck to take as many as he 
chose. Breck took 125, which doubled the size of the Met's collection at 
the time. This is the first, and rarest, catalog of rugs from the 
Ballard Collection, published by Ballard himself in an edition of just 
100 copies and quite scarce these days. O'Bannon 1166.

Hardcover. 9"x11.5", 2 pages of text plus 36 black & white plates with 
tissue guards and facing descriptions; bound in old half leather and 
green cloth. The covers are somewhat worn, the spine head and base are 
chipped, and the leather along the top front spine hinge is corroded; 
several old newspaper columns regarding the collection are pasted to the 
endpapers; a piece of paper was pasted to and then removed from the 
front free endpaper, just above a pasted-in photo of Ballard.  $150-

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