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Currier & Ives America Pictorial Hardcover Coffee Table Book Panorama of 80 Prints

$140.00

Currier & Ives America pictorial hardcover coffee table book. A Panorama of the mid 19th Century in America, Book published printed in the USA by Crown Publishers New York. Pages of full-page, full-color Currier & Ives plates.

This hardcover book is complete with NO dust jacket. Color plates are suitable for framing, if desired.

About the book: Currier and Ives' America, 1952, edited by Colin Simkin. A panorama of the mid-nineteenth century. Contains 80 choice prints in full color, with extended commentary on the prints and the times which they portray. Large oblong book - approximately 150 pages with 80 color plates. NO dust jacket. Published and printed in New York by Crown Publishers.

Condition: In EXCELLENT overall condition the book has a strong and sturdy spine and bind with NO pages separating from it. Front has some light age grime particularly at top edge. One back page has wrinkle, as shown in photo, but it is a blank page.
The internal pages are overall bright and without damage, some very light discoloring at spine area on a few pages but the plates are all bright and vivid. Beautiful full-color Currier & Ives plates of mid-century America. Wonderful coffee table book.

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Original Antique Etching Woodcut ENGRAVING Harry Davidson Artist Proof After Kenyon Cox for Century Magazine May 1887

$93.00

A wonderful etching woodcut engraving after Kenyon Cox (1856-1919) by Century Magazine engraver Harry Davidson titled "Israel". This particular engraving is an original artist proof in a small wooden frame behind glass.

Measures 7.5" by 4.5"

Remarkable condition, no tears or rips, one tiny age spot dot in the man's back shoulder (size: tip of a 
pencil).

We also have a copy of the magazine illustration with the article from May 1887 34th edition of Century Magazine. 
The article shows the engraving after the original painting which was titled by Cox "Jacob Wrestling with the Angel" (1886), along with a poem by John Hay titled "Israel". 
The original painting by Cox, a well known American Renaissance artist, is listed as location and dimensions unknown. 

Harry Davidson (1858-1924) is listed to have began working for Century Magazine in 1878. He was a prominent member of the Manhattan Chess Club, so well known his winnings are recorded on the chess games website. His obituary indicates he worked for Century Magazine for 25 years, was an art critic for Vogue Magazine, and a member of the Salmangundi Club and Art Center.

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