Charles balliard (2 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original 1907 booklet published by and privately printed for the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). Magnificent B/W photos taken by Charles Balliard on every other page separate by original tissue guards. Printed on thick archival type paper. Wonderful soft copy book. The watch collection is AMAZING. (BR) Box 37.…

Very Good (little edgewear; front cover professionally reattached; contents clean & tight). Small quarto: black quarter-morocco leather & marbled boards, marbled endpapers First Edition. In 1908, Hearn self-published this catalogue of his collection- one that would probably be unable to be accumulated today. ?The George A. Hearn Collection of Carved Ivories? is a lavishly photographed compendium, privately-printed at an exorbitant cost. Much of his collection, including works by Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent and Whistler, were donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art following his death. The book has 29 pages of text and 261 pages of black-and-white photographs. Tiny in name of ?Henry G. Davidson, 1909? on a front blank page. Photographs made expressly for this catalogue by Mr. Charles Balliard. (illustrator).…