[Rarebooks] FS: American Antique Escritoire -1929 Limited Edition Book

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

“An Early American Queen Anne Escritoire, 1715-1730” By Ross H. Maynard. 
Privately printed for the author by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press 
in 1929. Edition limited to 200 copies.

Maynard, an early collector and dealer in East Middlebury, Vermont, 
owned this distinctive piece; he asked Carl G. Beede to write the 
poetical, if slightly overawed essay describing it. The piece was 
subsequently purchased by John J. Gunther of York, Maine, and sold at 
the dispersal of his important collection in 1960. A beautifully 
produced early American furniture monograph, an excellent example of the 
sort of high-quality, spare-no-expense monograph which was popular with 
the early generations of Americana collectors and dealers.

The printer, Daniel Berkeley Updike [1860-1941] worked for the Riverside 
Press and trained as a printer, setting up his own Merrymount Press in 
1896. He specialized in historical printing styles of the seventeenth, 
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Semowich 898.

Hardcover. 7.5"x10", 10 pages of text plus 5 gravure plates; original 
paper covered boards and cloth spine; marbled endpapers. Stamped 
"Printer's Copy". Minor wear, corner bump, but otherwise clean and nice, 
with a tight binding. [38420]  $125

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