Description

Together, 19 printed pamphlets housed in two folding clamshell boxes, with blindstamped covers and spines lettered in silver. All plates present, in six pamphlets larger plates have been stapled in margins, not affecting images. Collection as follows: Box I. “Great Drawings in the Metropolitan” [Album LO] plates stapled in margins; “Paintings by Paul Cezanne” [Album LC] color plates tipped-in; “Leonardo Da Vinci [Album LL] plates tipped-in; “Vincent Van Gogh” [Album LV] color plates tipped-in; “Three American Water Colorists Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent” [Album LW] color plates tipped-in; “Japanese Prints in the Metropolitan” [Album LJ] color plates tipped-in; “Rembrandts in the Metropolitan” [Album LR] color plates stapled in at margins; “Pieter Bruegel” [Album LB] color plates stapled in at margins; “English Paintings in the Huntington Gallery” [Album LH] color plates tipped-in; “The Metropolitan Museum of Art Miniatures” [Album V] plain wraps with pictorial pastedown, color plates tipped-in. Box II. “French Impressionists: Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Boudin” [Album LI] color plates stapled in at margins; “Masters of Spanish Painting: El Greco, Velazquez and others” [Album LS] color plates tipped-in; “The Metropolitan Museum of Art Miniatures” [Album 0] plain wraps with pictorial pastedown, color plates tiped-in; “The Christmas Story in Art and Legend” [Album LX] color plates tipped-in; “Paintings from the Hapsburg Collection” [Album LG] color plates tipped-in; “The Metropolitan Museum of Art Miniatures” [Album C] plain wraps with pictorial pastedown, color plates tiped-in; “Masterpieces in the Phildadelphia Museum of Art” {Album LP] color plates stapled in at margins; “Degas in the Metropolitan” [Album LD] color plates stapled in at margins; “Figure Painting by Renoir” [Album LF] color plates tipped-in. One box slightly damaged at inner case, all pamphlets very good to fine. A nice collection originally distributed by The Book of the Month Club in 1951.