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PROPERTY OF PAWNEE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL MUSEUM
McKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868). History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Philadelphia; Daniel Rice & James G. Clark, 1842-1842-1844.
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McKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868). History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Philadelphia; Daniel Rice & James G. Clark, 1842-1842-1844.
3 volumes, 2o (510 x 363 mm). List of subscribers at end of vol. III. 120 hand-colored lithographed plates and uncolored lithographed map (scattered light foxing, heavier in opening and closing pages of vols. I and II; blank preliminary leaf in vol. I torn and repaired). Plates clean and vivid. Rebacked (vol. II covers detached; hinges weak on other volumes; spines scuffed; spine of vol. I chipped).
FIRST EDITION OF "THE GRANDEST COLOR PLATE BOOK ISSUED IN THE UNITED STATES UP THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION" (Reese). "Its long and checkered publication history spanned twelve years and involved multiple lithographers (mainly Peter S. Duval and James T. Bowen) and publishers, but the final product is one of the most distinctive and important books in Americana. Almost all the plates are portraits of individual Native Americans, the majority painted from life by Charles Bird King (who also reworked the less skilfull portraits of James Otto Lewis). The complicated circumstances of its production have left a bibliographical stew of issues and issue points that are yet to be satisfactorily resolved" (ibid.).
The practice of taking portraits of the principal American Indians who came to Washington had begun as early as 1824. Chiefly painted by Charles Bird King, they were deposited in the War Department. Col. McKenney, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Washington, conceived of the plan of making a collection of biographies, enhanced by the addition of the portraits. A biographical sketch accompanies each portrait, and the work also contains a general history of the various Indian tribes within the borders of the United States. Bennett p.79; BAL 6934; Field 992; Howes M-129; Reese Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books 24; Sabin 43410a. (3)
3 volumes, 2o (510 x 363 mm). List of subscribers at end of vol. III. 120 hand-colored lithographed plates and uncolored lithographed map (scattered light foxing, heavier in opening and closing pages of vols. I and II; blank preliminary leaf in vol. I torn and repaired). Plates clean and vivid. Rebacked (vol. II covers detached; hinges weak on other volumes; spines scuffed; spine of vol. I chipped).
FIRST EDITION OF "THE GRANDEST COLOR PLATE BOOK ISSUED IN THE UNITED STATES UP THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION" (Reese). "Its long and checkered publication history spanned twelve years and involved multiple lithographers (mainly Peter S. Duval and James T. Bowen) and publishers, but the final product is one of the most distinctive and important books in Americana. Almost all the plates are portraits of individual Native Americans, the majority painted from life by Charles Bird King (who also reworked the less skilfull portraits of James Otto Lewis). The complicated circumstances of its production have left a bibliographical stew of issues and issue points that are yet to be satisfactorily resolved" (ibid.).
The practice of taking portraits of the principal American Indians who came to Washington had begun as early as 1824. Chiefly painted by Charles Bird King, they were deposited in the War Department. Col. McKenney, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Washington, conceived of the plan of making a collection of biographies, enhanced by the addition of the portraits. A biographical sketch accompanies each portrait, and the work also contains a general history of the various Indian tribes within the borders of the United States. Bennett p.79; BAL 6934; Field 992; Howes M-129; Reese Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books 24; Sabin 43410a. (3)