AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS

AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS, by ROYAL CORTISSOZ

1st edition
1907, Houghton Mifflin & Co, Boston
Designed & printed by Bruce Rogers at Riverside Press

Hard Cover, 11 x 7-1/2" tall quarto, original dark blue cloth with gold & green ornamental title (scattered mottling, mostly near margins)

86 pages on heavy paper, 24 photogravure illustrations, each with tissue cover,

Ink owner's signature "Gloria Stamm Chamberlain" (author of American Painters & Sculptors)

Includes a separate 4 page prospectus describing the publication :

"By the death last summer of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, America lost her greatest sculptor...text ...by Mr. Royal Cortissoz...art critic whose standing is second to none...and enjoyed...an intimate friendship with the great sculptor...the first attempt to bring together anything like a complete series of reproductions of Saint-Gaudens's work..."

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