Reese, William S.:

$39 · Offered by William Reese Company

STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER: NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN COLOR PLATE BOOKS. AN EXHIBITION. This catalogue was published to accompany an exhibition at the Grolier Club, May 4 - July 31, 1999. An introduction gives an overview of 19th-century American color plate books, while the text, in ten sections, describes 114 American color plate books from William Birch's THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA...IN 1800 up to the end of the century. One chapter deals with the Audubon family and their extraordinary contributions to American color plate books. Extensively illustrated in color.

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