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The North American Indian, Portfolio and Text Volume 17 (1903-1926)
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EDWARD S. CURTIS
Curtis, Edward S.
The North American Indian, Portfolio and Text Volume 17 (1903-1926)
36 large-format photogravures published as Portfolio 17, The North American Indian, Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska, Seattle, WA; New York; and Cambridge, MA: University Press, 1907-1930. Each plate printed on Van Gelder Holland with letterpress copyright credit, title, plate numbers 580-615 and Suffolk Eng. Co., Boston printer's credit in the margin; 28 plates with Trinity College Library stamp on the verso. Each approximately 15 x 11 (29.5 x 39.5cm.) or the reverse. In the original half-brown morocco folding case with gilt-impressed portfolio number. Large folio. Together with The North American Indian, Volume 17. Norwood, Massachusetts: Plimpton Press, 1926. Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, Field Research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan and Foreward by Theodore Roosevelt. Numbered 456 in ink from the proposed edition of 500. Embossed Ryerson Library, Art Institute, Chicago stamp on the title page. Containing approximately 74 small-format photogravures printed on vellum; each with Ryerson Library stamp on the verso. 4to, bound in original half-brown morocco gilt. (2)
Curtis, Edward S.
The North American Indian, Portfolio and Text Volume 17 (1903-1926)
36 large-format photogravures published as Portfolio 17, The North American Indian, Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska, Seattle, WA; New York; and Cambridge, MA: University Press, 1907-1930. Each plate printed on Van Gelder Holland with letterpress copyright credit, title, plate numbers 580-615 and Suffolk Eng. Co., Boston printer's credit in the margin; 28 plates with Trinity College Library stamp on the verso. Each approximately 15 x 11 (29.5 x 39.5cm.) or the reverse. In the original half-brown morocco folding case with gilt-impressed portfolio number. Large folio. Together with The North American Indian, Volume 17. Norwood, Massachusetts: Plimpton Press, 1926. Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, Field Research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan and Foreward by Theodore Roosevelt. Numbered 456 in ink from the proposed edition of 500. Embossed Ryerson Library, Art Institute, Chicago stamp on the title page. Containing approximately 74 small-format photogravures printed on vellum; each with Ryerson Library stamp on the verso. 4to, bound in original half-brown morocco gilt. (2)