Representative Works of Contemporary American Artists
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. Hardcover. Red library buckram. Unpaginated. 30 bw plates. Good+ (library binding is holidng well, but the cloth has some tears at corners and caps. some sunning to spine and soiling to cover. interior is much better, though a library ink stamp has been applied to the front of all plates as well as the title page. title page was torn and has been taped. corner of the list of plates is creased. there are ink smudges in margins, more heavy on the first few pages. a few tissue guards left, and of those that are left, many are creased. ). Item #23809.1
This beautiful tome is comprised of selection of plates, each follwed by a page of text which contains biographical information on each artist and notes about the illustration. Artists include Alfred Fredericks, Wm. Bliss Baker, Edward Moran, Eastman Johnson, Francis Miller, F.D. Millet, M.F.H. De Haas, C.D. Weldon, Carleton Wiggins, Bruce Crane, George H. Boughton, H. Bolton Jones, Leon Moran, J.W. Alexander, Francis, C. Jones, E.A. Abbey, Thomas Moran, Wordsworth Thomson, Walter Shirlaw, Gilbert Gaul, Louis Moeller, Edwin Howland Blashfield, J.H. Witt, Elihu Vedder, Constant Mayer, Charles Sprague Pearce, F. Hopkinson Smith, Percy Moran, J. Carroll Beckwith, and W.T. Dannatt. With a one-page introduction and a list of plates. A real treasure!
Price: $200.00