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Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965. First edition. Paperback. Orig. blue wrappers. Fine. Copley, John Singleton. 142 pages. 103 color and black and white reproductions. Exhibition Sept. 18, 1965 -Mar. 6, 1966. Bibliography. Catalogue. FREITAG 1765. KARPEL H262. "....commemorates the 150th anniversary of Copley's death.

Toronto: M.F. Feheley, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. Pope, William. 175 pp. Thirty-six four-color plates with accompanying commentary by J. Fenwick Landsdowne. Index. Pope emigrated from Kent, England and settled in Port Ryerse, Ontario. Canada's first artist-naturalist, his watercolors are artistically comparable to those of his contemporary, Audubon. Selections from Pope's very literate journals, he was well educated and a keen observer, are also reproduced here.

San Francisco: Cameron & Co, 1984. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper.. Approx. 180 pages in text. Large landscape 4to, profusely illustrated with color photographs.

Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1959. leather_bound. Orig. brown morocco front cover decorated and lettered in gilt. Aeg. Fine. 38 pages. 7 x 5 cm. Frontispiece is a tipped-in one cent United States postage stamp of Lincoln. Printed on "Antiqua" paper by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland and bound by Proost and Brandt, Amsterdam, Holland. Marbled endpapers. As new copy.

New York: American Heritage, 1976. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Fine in near fine publisher's slipcase. 2 vols. 24 x 16.5 cm. Both volumes illustrated: photos, drawings, maps. Silouettes of Adams and Jefferson decorated in gilt front covers of both volumes with backstrips also gilt decorated.

Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 78 pages in text. Introduction by George B. Tatum. With thirty-three photographs of Hutton's work, most of them by Cortlandt van Dyke Hubbard. Notes. Index. Chronological Commissions of Addison Hunter. A microcosm of most of the essential elements for a history of American architecture from 1850-1900. Orig. black cloth. KARPEL B1111. "...drawn upon her own memories...of his life and career.

West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1985. leather_bound. Full green morocco by Gray Parrot, gilt cover border fillets frame front cover gilt center motif. Fine in fine beige basket weave portfolio in fine slipcase. Moser, Barry. 417 pages. Folio, 33 x 25,5 cm. Limited edition, copy 313 of 350 signed by Barry Moser in initials, with an additional suite of 49 wood engraved plates by Moser in a separate portfolio. Printed in Centaur and Arrighi type on Mohawk Letterpress, as are the engraved additional plates, an archival sheet with hand composition by Chase Twitchell. Foreword by Henry Nash Smith. Printed by Harold McGrath. The illustrations in the text measure six by nine inches, and printed for the original wood blocks, The plate size of the additional 49 engraved plates, 13 x 10 inches.

New York: Random House, 1930. Hardcover. Orig. tan calf spine and color illustrated boards. Fine in very good publisher's sunned slipcase. 132 pages. 27 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 70 of 2000, signed by Donald McKay, fabric and printing by the Pynson Printers under the supervision of Elmer Adler. Drawings by McKay in black and white. Fresh, very bright copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Orange brown cloth, front cover lettered in silver, black spine label lettered in silver. Fine. 368 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Landmark work on the American economy, reasoned and unpolitical, facing a future in pursuit of goods rather than investing in people. It is perhaps truer today than than the day published. Unclipped dust wrapper $5.00 price, pristine almost as new copy.

Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. 633 pages. An illustrated state by state guide with an extensive index. Bookplate.

Np, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. vellum spine and dark gray boards. Fine in tattered original glassine. 42 pages. 26.5 x 18 cm. Engraved frontispiece of Farmer. The first women to become president of a major educational institution, Wellesley College at age 26. In the early 1890's she became the first president of the new University of Chicago. Throughout her academic career she was a staunch advocate of higher education for women during the late 19th century. Palmer's life was commemorated at a service at Harvard University in 1903 attended by college presidents whom she knew and other notable individuals in higher education. Unopened, printed at the Merrymount Press by D.B. Updike.

New York: Rizzoli, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. mauve cloth decorated in blind. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 225 pages. 29 x 23.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color plates printed on high gloss stock. List of Public Gardens represented. Public Garden Source List. Index.

New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth lettered in silver and black. Near fine in nicked dust wrapper (spine darkened) in rubbed, firm slipcase.. 415 pages. Small folio, 33 x 22 cm. Illustrated with eighteen colored and 136 black and white plates, together with numerous other illustrations showing the work of more than 100 different craftsmen from every part of America. Index to Alphabetical List Illustrations. Bibliography. KARPEL K139. "The introduction to this monumental volume provides an excellent survey of American lithography, discussing business methods, aesthetics, and subject matter. The alphabetical list of lithographers is tremendously helpful in documenting prints.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Very good. 368 pages. With several color and over 150 black and white illustrations. Notes. Index. KARPEL H50. "When this book was published in 1947, it was the mostcomprehensive general history of American Painting to 1775, and it remains of value today...

New York: Macmillan, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper. 961 pp. Index. The Guide is in a sense a bibliographic panorama as well as an inventory ofthe best historical literature extant at the time of publication.

Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. terracotta cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 152 pages. Illustrated. List of Titles. Chronological List. 347 entries; the present compilation is based primarily upon the Wegelin list and the Atkinson catalogue, and purports to be the first bibliography in print of the plays written and published between 1714 and 1830 by: [1] American authors; [2] foreign authors living in America; and [3] American authors living abroad.

London: George Virtue, 1840. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth decorated in blind and gilt, front and back covers with gilt arabesques and lettering at spine. Aeg. Five Vols. Very good. Bartlett, William H. 48, 106, 96, 140 (4), 52, 28 x 22 cm. 117 steel engrave plates with tissue guards. Originally published in Thirty parts at one shilling, or in Divisions, 6s. 6d., cloth gilt. Drawings by William Henry Bartlett one of the most prolific of illustrators for topographical works. "It is almost certain that there are more steel engravings after Bartlett than after any other painter of views," -- [see RUSSELLp.196]. Bartlett made four voyages to America between the years 1836 and 1852. HOWES B209. From the publisher's original announcement: "Like Columbus, at first, we only dream of America. It is yet both a new and an unknown world to us, in regard to its scenes of natural beauty and sublimity. The Proprietors...have sought to produce a series of Select Views, which will form a… Read More

Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Very good. 262 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Approximately 40 illustrations. Notes. Index. KARPEL B33. "Perhaps the best early general survey." Clean, fresh copy, owner inscription, some pencil underlining.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. wine cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 492 pages. 298 black and white illustrations. Bibliography. Index. KARPEL I41. "One of the better introductory studies of American art,this attractive book emphasizes the relationship between major social forces and the arts in the United States.

New York: American Heritage, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good in rubbed dust wrapper. 399 pp. More than 700 illustrations in black and white and color. Index. The volume startswith Colonial life in the early 1600's and ends in the late 1960's: American society with all its pimples, quirks and extravagances.