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Boston, c.1881
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Celebrated Horses of America
Boston, c.1881
EQUESTRIAN PORTRAITS – [Cover title:] Celebrated Horses of America. [Boston:] E.K. Dunbar & Co. [c.1881-1882].
A rare and fine series of equestrian portraits after Scott Leighton, Henry Stull, and others. Rare at auction: RBH and ABPC record only one complete copy in the past 100 years, sold in these rooms on 3 December 2010. Originally issued in ten parts in wrappers, as described by Goodspeed's in 1914 (the only record of a copy in the trade we have been able to find, and the only record of its original form). The subjects comprise: Volunteer, St. Julien, Parole, Ten Broeck, Maud S., Harold, Luke Blackburn, Nevada, Daniel Lambert, Smuggler, Leamington, Bonnie Scotland, Iroquois 1878, Foxhall 1878, Almont, Piedmont, Santa Claus, Messenger Duroc, Hindoo, Thora, Clingstone, Captain Lewis, Edwin, Thorne, and Black Cloud. The letterpress leaves that accompany each plate give a detailed account of ownership, bloodline, and record.
Folio (462 x 580mm). 24 chromolithographs (275 x 278mm) on mounts, each with descriptive text leaf (occasional loss at corners of plates, a little soiling, text pages with some creasing or short tears; two plates with minor repairs, one with in-painting to loss at top edge.) Original black half morocco with brown cloth (some wear to cloth, wear to front joint with part of spine detaching).
Boston, c.1881
EQUESTRIAN PORTRAITS – [Cover title:] Celebrated Horses of America. [Boston:] E.K. Dunbar & Co. [c.1881-1882].
A rare and fine series of equestrian portraits after Scott Leighton, Henry Stull, and others. Rare at auction: RBH and ABPC record only one complete copy in the past 100 years, sold in these rooms on 3 December 2010. Originally issued in ten parts in wrappers, as described by Goodspeed's in 1914 (the only record of a copy in the trade we have been able to find, and the only record of its original form). The subjects comprise: Volunteer, St. Julien, Parole, Ten Broeck, Maud S., Harold, Luke Blackburn, Nevada, Daniel Lambert, Smuggler, Leamington, Bonnie Scotland, Iroquois 1878, Foxhall 1878, Almont, Piedmont, Santa Claus, Messenger Duroc, Hindoo, Thora, Clingstone, Captain Lewis, Edwin, Thorne, and Black Cloud. The letterpress leaves that accompany each plate give a detailed account of ownership, bloodline, and record.
Folio (462 x 580mm). 24 chromolithographs (275 x 278mm) on mounts, each with descriptive text leaf (occasional loss at corners of plates, a little soiling, text pages with some creasing or short tears; two plates with minor repairs, one with in-painting to loss at top edge.) Original black half morocco with brown cloth (some wear to cloth, wear to front joint with part of spine detaching).
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