Whitefield, Edwin:

$600 · Offered by William Reese Company

HOMES OF OUR FOREFATHERS IN BOSTON, OLD ENGLAND, AND BOSTON, NEW ENGLAND FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY EDWIN WHITEFIELD. Deluxe large-paper first edition in the original binding. Of all of the Whitefield books, it is likely that this one records the largest percentage of houses that no longer exist. This volume is especially interesting for the frontispiece to the second (Boston, New England) part, a colored photographic view of the Old State House. A so-called "heliochrome," printed by the Heliotype Printing Co., the print is an early example of a colored photographic plate; in it, color has been printed on top of a photographic image, imbuing it with an "oddly three-dimensional quality" (Reese).

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