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Six edition of the biography of the legendary outlaw brothers, Frank and Jesse James.&nbsp;<ul><li>New York: Richard K. Fox, 1881.</li><li>1 vol, 67 pages.</li><li>Illustrated with 28 full page woodcut plates.</li><li>2 2 additional pages of rear adverts.</li><li>Stapled.</li></ul>

The Outlaw Brothers, Frank and Jesse James: Lives and Adventures of the Scourges of the Plains

An important edition of McKenney and Hall's&nbsp;History of the Indian Tribes of North America&nbsp;with 123 full-page color plates&nbsp;<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>Thomas L. McKenney (American).</li><li>James B. Hall (American).</li><li>Volume I includes a historical introduction by Frederick Webb Hodge.</li><li>Edinburgh:&nbsp;John Grant,&nbsp;1933-1934.&nbsp;</li><li>Illustrated with two photogravure portraits of McKenney and Hall, 123 color plates after portraits by Charles Bird King, and two full-color folding maps.</li><li>Bound in original blue pictorial cloth stamped in blind, gilt-lettered spines, in original typographic dust jackets (no price on flaps), top edges gilt, other edges uncut.</li></ul> Thomas L. McKenney, a Quaker, served as the US Government's Superintendent of Indian Affairs from 1824 to 1830. During this period, he worked with the renowned American artist Charles Bird King, commissioning the artist to paint portraits of Native leaders who were visiting the government in DC. The fame of the paintings soon spread, and McKenney conceived of a massive printing project to record them in book form. At the same time, incoming president Andrew Jackson fired McKenney, after McKenney fundamentally rejected Jackson's stance on the US's relationship with Indigenous nations. Suddenly jobless, McKenney threw himself into the project, mounting one of the most ambitious book projects ever seen in the United States up to that time: three elephant folio volumes containing 120 hand-colored plates. Already a significant record of leaders and their nations, the books took on supreme importance as a cultural document after a fire at the Smithsonian engulfed the majority of Charles Bird King's original paintings. This edition made the production accessible in the 20th century beyond the increasing rarity of the 19th century folio and octavo editions. Its introduction by Hodge captures the growing legend of the story behind the production, detailing the delays and obstacles that threatened more than once to end the project. A noteworthy edition, mythologizing and making accessible the story of a critical record of Indigenous nations in the pre-Jacksonian era.

History of the Indian Tribes of North America

A first edition copy of this remarkable collection of silhouette portraits of prominent politicians and leaders, created by scissors artist William H. Brown.<ul><li>William H. Brown (American).</li><li>Hartford:&nbsp;E. B. and E. C. Kellogg,&nbsp;1846.</li><li>110 pages.</li><li>Illustrated with three-color lithograph frontispiece and 25 black and yellow lithograph plates with paper guards, with 26 lithograph letter facsimiles.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in publisher's quarter goatskin cloth boards with gilt pictorial stamping and gilt top edge.</li></ul> As William H. Brown notes in his introduction, Revolutionary figures have always carried an outsized influence on America's history and portraiture. In Portrait Gallery of Distinguished American Citizens, Brown strove to add 19th century icons to the pantheon of US history, expanding it in the style of the then-mainstream the Great Man Theory of history. His selection of the silhouette as his art form of choice for this work is striking: as photography became more popular in the mid-19th century, silhouettes were quickly falling out of favor. But Brown was known for pushing the boundaries of the form, leading silhouettes to enjoy "a period of popularity, when [they] were considered the quintessential contemporary snapshots of public and private life" (K.S., 103). An example of Brown's artistry—and what gives these images an unexpectedly modern feel—is the setting of his portraits: his dark, flat silhouettes have been placed within realistic backgrounds depicted using traditional techniques of perspective. It is as though these men have been distilled to their essential form, with sparse details added in faint white pencil, yet still exist within the real world. A stunning antebellum project of mythologizing American history.

Portrait Gallery of Distinguished American Citizens and Fac-Similes of Original Letters

First editions of Burns' Sleeping Beauty and Sleeping Beauty II.<ul><li>Stanley B. Burns (American).</li><li>Elizabeth Burns (American).</li><li>Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America and Sleeping Beauty II: Grief, Bereavement and the Family in Memorial Photography. American &amp; European Traditions.</li><li>Altadena, California: Twelvetree Press, 1990.</li><li>New York: Burns Archive Press,&nbsp;2002.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Illustrated with 76 and 134 plates after photographs.</li><li>Signed in the second volume by Stanley and Elizabeth Burns.</li><li>Bound in publishers’ blue and black cloths in black dust jackets printed in silver.</li></ul>

Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America

Beautifully illustrated set of Hovey's Fruits of America.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>Charles Mason Hovey (American).</li><li>The Fruits of America, Containing Richly Colored Figures, and Full Descriptions of all the Choicest Varieties Cultivated in the United States.</li><li>Boston:&nbsp;C.C. Little and Jas. Brown and Hovey &amp; Co.,&nbsp;[1847]-1856.&nbsp;</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Titles with wood-engraved vignettes, lithographic portrait frontispieces of Hovey and William Sharp, 96 chromolithographic plates by William Sharp &amp; Son, and numerous woodcut illustrations.</li><li>Includes subscriber's list in volume 1.</li><li>Bound in three-quarter green polished calf, marbled boards, paneled spines with gilt titling by E. Lycett, with their blind-embossed stamp to the first three endpapers of volume 1 and first two endpapers of volume 2.</li></ul>

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