American Artists and Their Works: A Series of Etchings, Photo-etchings, Photogravures, and Engravings after Designs and Paintings by The Most Celebrated Artists, With Descriptive and Biographical text by Leading American Art Writers (2 volumes)
Boston: S. Walker & Co., [1889]. Hardbound. 3/4 leather with green cloth covers (recently rebound). 2 Volumes. Vol. 1: 49 etchings and photo-etchings, numerous wood engravings and text illustrations. Vol. 2: viii, pp. 209-416, 51 etchings and photo-etchings, numerous wood engravings and text illustrations. VG, small marks form previous owners, nothing noxious a very presentable set, title-page loose in volume 1. Item #149307
Volumes 1 explores Walter Shirlaw, Frank T. Merrill, Frederic Arthur Bridgeman, William St. John Harper, Daniel Huntington, Edmund Henry Garrett, William Merritt Chase, Frederick W. Freer, Robert Swain Gifford, Elihu Vedder, H. Winthrop Pierce, Granville Perkins and William Ladd Taylor. Volume 2 explores the following artists: Maud Humphrey, Frederick S. Church, John Francis Murphy, Felix Octavius Darley, Henry Sandham, James Wells Champney, James Carroll Beckwith, george Fuller, Jessie Cutis Shepherd, Louis Meynelle, Willard Poinsette Snyder, Charles Copeland, Moses Jacob Ezekiel, Frederick Dielman, Charles Stanley Reinhart, Alice and Charles Hirschberg, William J. Mozart, Alfred R. Waud and Charles Henry Miller. Most of the illustrations in this set can be surmised to have appeared elsewhere prior to this incantation.
Price: $675.00