Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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[ARCHITECTURE]. WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1867?1959). ?? GANNETT, William C. (1840?1923). The House Beautiful. [Park Forest, Illinois: The Prairie School Press for W.R. Hasbrouck, 1963]. Small folio. Printed in red and black, illustrated with Wright?s Sullivanesque design. Original publisher?s duo?tone cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (tiny spots of rubbing at extreme ends of spine, some minor spotting to lower cover). FACSIMILE EDITION of the 1897 collaboration between Wright and Gannett printed by the Auvergne Press. Contains a small booklet sewn into front free endpaper of halftone images of trees used as formal sources for Wright?s stylistic illustrations.