[Rarebooks] F/S Bacon Collection Chinese Art Oblects & Old & Modern Master Paintings

Garry R Austin austbook at sover.net
Sun Jan 22 13:45:33 EST 2017


We offer for your consideration the following, net to all & postpaid @ 
$395.
From
Austin's Antiquarian Books
PO Box 730
Wilmington, Vt. 05363
mail at austinsbooks.com
802 464-8438

Getz, John, (Notes & Descriptions), & Bacon, Edward R. Catalogue of 
Chinese Art Objects Including Porcelains, Potteries, Jades, Bronzes and 
Cloisonne Enamels Collected By Edward R. Bacon With Illustrations In 
Colour And Photogravure. New York, Privately printed for Virginia Bacon 
by the De Vinne Press, 1919.
Number 38 of a small (unspecified) limitation; Quarto; pp; xvii, (i), 315;
Illustrated; Frontispiece is a fine original portrait etching of Bacon 
by Anders Zorn, and sixty-three (63) fine mounted color plates and 
photogravures of Chinese porcelain and pottery; three quarter brown 
polished morocco and marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers, 
raised bands, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt;

Internally fine and complete with bright plates; boards detached but 
present, spine dry and cracked, desiccated. A candidate for rebinding or 
at least rebacking;

This copy bears the bookplate of Dave Hennen Morris of New York.
David Hennen "Dave" Morris (1872 -- 1944) was an American lawyer, 
diplomat, and Thoroughbred racehorse owner who co-founded the 
International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA).From 1933 to 1937, 
he was the United States Ambassador to Belgium and Envoy to Luxembourg.

In companion with,

Townsend, James B. and W. Stanton Howard, (Preparers) With Biographical 
Notes By John Getz. Memorial Catalogue of Paintings By Old And Modern 
Masters Collected By Edward R. Bacon. New York, Privately printed for 
Virginia Bacon by the De Vinne Press, 1919.
Number 38 of a small (unspecified) limitation; Quarto; pp; xvi, 264;
Illustrated; Frontispiece is a photogravure of the portrait etching of 
Bacon by Anders Zorn, and forty-three (43) fine half-tone plates and 
photogravures of Chinese porcelain and pottery; three quarter brown 
polished morocco and marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers, 
raised bands, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt;

Internally fine and complete with bright plates; boards detached but 
present, spine dry and cracked, desiccated. A candidate for rebinding or 
at least rebacking;

This copy bears the bookplate of Dave Hennen Morris of New York.

These are companion volumes, in matching bindings with the same number 
within the limitation.


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