American Beauty Personified as The Nine Muses

by Winston Churchill, Cyrus A. Bartol, Joseph Fagnani, text

$7,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Frontispiece portrait photograph albumen print of artist Joseph Fagnani, and 9 albumen prints from portraits of American women by Fagnani, each sitter identified by an ink caption in a previous owner's hand. 56 pp. 1 vols. 6-5/8 x 5-3/4 inches 16.8 x 14.5 cm . Contemporary limp burgundy morocco, with a handwritten paper label affixed to the upper cover, reading: “American Beauties as Muses 1860-1870 with names written by Leonie Jerome ” and gilt-lettered spine. Some wrinkling to

• Binding: Leather

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