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[Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de]
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3,500 - 5,000 USD
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Description
- The Saint-Mémin Collection of Portraits, Consisting of Seven Hundred and Sixty Medallion Portraits; principally of distinguished Americans, photographed by J. Gurney and Son, of New York, from proof impressions of the original copper-plates ... to which are added a Memoir of M. de Saint-Mémin, and biographical sketches of the persons whose portraits constitute the collection. New York: Elias Dexter, 1862
- er, ink, leather
viii, 104pp. ILLUSTRATION: 63 photographic plates.
Small folio (15 x 11 1/2 in.; 381 x 292 mm). BINDING: Period green morocco, covers elaborately panelled in gilt and blind, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, yellow endpapers, gilt edges. PROVENANCE: W. F. Bartlett (signature on title)
Minor dampstaining and foxing, minor fading to three plates. Upper joint of binding just splitting but holding.
Small folio (15 x 11 1/2 in.; 381 x 292 mm). BINDING: Period green morocco, covers elaborately panelled in gilt and blind, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, yellow endpapers, gilt edges. PROVENANCE: W. F. Bartlett (signature on title)
Minor dampstaining and foxing, minor fading to three plates. Upper joint of binding just splitting but holding.
Literature
Miles, Saint-Mémin 212; Howes F107, "b"; Sabin 75444
Catalogue Note
From an edition limited to 100 copies, this collection represents one of the greatest archives of St.-Mémin images available."This book has become the major source of information on St.-Mémin and his work. It is equally significant as one of the earliest volumes to have all illustrations done with original photographs: each copy of the book contains a full set of handmade photographic prints" (Miles).