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Limited Edition, Signed.
Charles Turzak's Biography in Woodcuts of Benjamin Franklin, includes 80 woodcuts with a simple narrative text by his wife Florence (a graduate of Northwestern University's journalism school). Turzak's art recounts Franklin's progress from runaway apprentice to Founding Father.
Turzak showed a strong interest in art early in life. As a child he would draw cartoons and carved small objects from peach pits. Charles was apprenticed to a neighbor, who was also an English cabinetmaker. In 1920, he was a $100 prize from the Purina company, and parlayed the prize to gain admission to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He soon became a freelance commercial artist.
During the Depression he was one of the first artists to participate in WPA projects. He produced murals in Chicago's main post office and elsewhere. His most famous work became the book Lincoln: Biography in Woodcuts, which he produced at and during the Century of Progress fair in Chicago (1933).
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1st edition Limited 439/1,001, 291p., frontispiece, illustrations, top edge gilt.
Gwinnett accomplished enough in life to merit a biography, but his real fame lies in his status as a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Several factors, including his relative obscurity and his death soon after the signing of the Declaration, make Gwinnett the rarest of almost any signature of Americana. There are only a couple dozen known examples. Author Isaac Azimov even wrote a sci-fi short story about crazed collectors and their attempts to use time travel to get their hands on a Button Gwinnett autograph.
This limited edition biography is not as rare as the signature, but it is very uncommon in this condition. Usual toning, but wonderfully clean; pages uncut; near fine condition!