Lot Essay
Published by the Auvernge Press in River Forest, Illinois, this book is numbered sixty-two of ninety printed copies and signed by William Herman Winslow and Frank Lloyd Wright.
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'THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL'
BY WILLIAM C. GANNET, IN A SETTING DESIGNED BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT AND PRINTED BY HAND AT THE AUVERGNE PRESS BY WILLIAM HERMAN WINSLOW AND FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, WINTER 1896 AND 1897
Consisting of reproductions of Wright's photographs of dried weeds sewn to the front endpaper and of original page decorations in black and red by Wright, with an essay on the Arts & Crafts philosophy of the ideal home, all on hand-made paper
12 x 14in. (30.5 x 35.6cm.)
BY WILLIAM C. GANNET, IN A SETTING DESIGNED BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT AND PRINTED BY HAND AT THE AUVERGNE PRESS BY WILLIAM HERMAN WINSLOW AND FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, WINTER 1896 AND 1897
Consisting of reproductions of Wright's photographs of dried weeds sewn to the front endpaper and of original page decorations in black and red by Wright, with an essay on the Arts & Crafts philosophy of the ideal home, all on hand-made paper
12 x 14in. (30.5 x 35.6cm.)