American Painter Etchings: Ten Original Etchings By the Best American Artists

Walter Rowlands

Boston : Estes & Lauriat, 1888

Folio. Artist's Edition. Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 18 of 25 signed proofs on satin silk. Of the 10 engravings, this copy has only 9 present. Plate VIII: Glencoe by Thomas Moran is absent. Bound in contemporary full leather. Gilt lettering on spine. Good binding, cover and flaps. Minimal wear to extremities. Library bookplate on front board. Clean, unmarked pages. The plates are in pristine condition without aging to the satin. The bottom of the plate, Idyl, there is slight dampstaining occurring that does not affect the plate nor the signature. There is 1 fold occurring to Idyl and At Polling seperately. Two slight creases occurring on On Gloucester Shore. On An extremely rare art book of Victorian style engravings on Satin silk by the best artists in American during the end of the 19th century. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US. <br><br> The contents are: Fetch it, Sir by Hamilton Hamilton; The fisheries question by Charles Y. Turner; Eudora by Frederick Dielman; At Polling by W. Freer; Idyl by Church; A woodland pasture by R. Swain Gifford; Revery by W. St. John Harper; The loafer by Gaugengigl; On Gloucester shore by W. Goodrich Beal.