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EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS
The North American Indian, Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States & Alaska
Seattle, WA: New York; and Cambridge, MA: University Press. 1907-30. Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, Field Research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan & Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt.
A complete set, numbered 147, from an edition of approximately 272 of the proposed edition of 500. Comprising 20 Text volumes, containing approximately 1,504 (of 1,505) small-format photogravures, 4 maps and 2 diagrams (lacking frontispiece vol. 1); and 20 accompanying Portfolio volumes, containing approximately 723 large-format photogravures, the majority printed on Japanese tissue, with the exception of portfolio vol. 1 entirely, vol. 2, pls. 39 and 68 only, vol. 3, pls. 84, 86 only, and vol. 4 entirely, all on Van Gelder Holland; text vols. 13 & 14 on Japanese vellum, vols. 16-20 on Van Gelder Holland - altogether 40 volumes. 4to (text and small-format photogravures in 20 volumes), bound in original half-brown morocco gilt by H. Blackwell; and large folio, (supplementary large photogravure plates in 20 portfolios), bound in library buckram. (text vols. with perforated library stamps all titles and some pp. 334, ink stamps sequentially numbered 218145-218164 on contents pages, library label with typed accession number tipped to the inside front covers, paper label with accession number in ink affixed to the inside back covers, some end covers renewed; portfolio vols. with accession numbers in pencil and ink stamps sequentially numbered 218239-218257 on the reverse of the titles and University of Tennessee ink stamps on mounts or the verso margins of the large photogravure plates, occasional foxing to large photogravures in portfolio volumes 1-12, occasional wrinkling to large photogravures in portfolio volumes 13-20).
