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The Macmillian Company, New York: 1905 449 pages, 23cm, extra-illustrated presentation copy, inscribed, and signed by the American genre painter and book illustrator, E(dward) L(amson) Henry (1841-1919): "To Mrs Marie L. Hewlett, E. L. Henry April 1913;" also, the five full-page illustrations reproducing Henry's paintings are signed by him; in addition, 5 photographic prints on paper (albumen and cyanotype) of Henry's paintings have been pasted in, 4 are signed and retouched by him in varying degrees. They are: p.173 untrimmed, untitled, and unsigned, the margin showing that the original painting was still on Henry's easel; p. 178, titled and signed, "July 1760 A Reception at 'Stenton' near Phila. The Home of James Logan, Secty. to Wm. Penn;" p.242, titled and signed, "Waiting for the Ferryman;" p.255, titled and signed, "The Floating Bridge Across the Schuylkill, Phila. and the 'Stage Wagon' of 1790;" p.325, titled and signed "Here Comes the Stage" (a cyanotype). Henry's work is collected for its authenticity and attention to the details of American rural life and travel in the eighteenth century. Henry was born in Charleston, an orphan at seven, and grew up with cousins in New York. He studied painting in Philadelphia and in Paris, notably with Charles Gleyre and Gustave Courbet. Henry served in the Union army, working as a clerk on a transport ship in Virginia, where he had opportunities to make sketches of what he saw in Virginia. Henry became a full academician at the National Academy of Design in 1869. In New York City, where he lived and worked, he became a member of the American Watercolor Society and the Artist's Fund Society. Henry was the central figure in the founding of the artists' colony at Cragsmoor in the Catskill Mountains, where he made his principal residence from 1884. Also, the front fly-leaf is signed and dated by noted photographer-historian Elizabeth Menzies. Top edge gilt, beige cloth, front cover stamped with orange and black replica of an old inn sign. Spine faded, but a very good, signed and inscribed, extra-illustrated copy. more information

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Verlag von Heinrich Keller, Frankfurt am Main: 1891 [xvi; 332 pages] 8vo, 24.5cm, 32 full-page black and white plates bound in and interlined, bibliography pp. 316-319, brown paper marbled boards with quarter brown cloth spine and corners, red and gilt label. Scuffing around the edges, but still a tight, very good copy of this authoritative study. more information

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