Famous Etchers: A Series of Twenty Original Etchings by Famous Foreign and American Artists among Whom Are Otto Bacher, Unger, Farrer, Gaugengigl, and Gifford: With Descriptive Text
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, (c. 1889). Hardcover. 20 plates and around 60 unnumbered pages. Original white cloth with beveled edges and a horizontally centered black leather band lettered in gilt ("Famous Artists") on the front cover portion of the black band. Folio-sized. (45 cm.). Stain along right edge on first plate which extends just a little into the blank part of the image. Cover slightly soiled. Some scuffing on leather band Foxing/offsetting on blank protective leaf behind each proof on parchment. Edition limited to 280 copies including; 5 Proofs on parchment; 25 copies on Japan paper; and 250 copies on Holland paper. This is copy No 4 of the 5 Proofs on parchment. List of Artists: Steven J. Ferris (2 prints); Anna Lea Merritt; James D. Smillie (2 prints); Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl; Stephen Parrish; Edmund H. Garrett (2 prints); Peter Moran; Henry Farrer; Frederick Stuart Church; S. A. Schoff; Otto H. Bacher; Paul Lerat; Gerome Ferris; Thomas Moran; William Unger; R. Swain Gifford; and Charles A. Platt. Very Good. Item #95135
Price: $1,500.00