$1,185
(Presidents, United States of America), Extra Illustrated, The White House Gallery of Official Portraits of the Presidents , [Washington]: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1901, gilt stamped and lettered crushed dark brown morocco with interior green onlays and silk doublures by Harcourt Bindery, Boston, Massachusetts, number 757 from an unknown number of impressions, with the usual portraits of the Presidents through Theodore Roosevelt and with inserted folio pages to accommodate documents, and additionally a photograph of William Howard Taft, 14 by 11 1/4; a signed photogravure of Woodrow Wilson by G. Prince, New York; photograph of Warren G. Harding, 11 3/8 by 10 5/8; signed, sepia toned photograph of Calvin Coolidge, 13 1/2 by 9 5/8; signed and inscribed photograph of Herbert Hoover, 15 1/4 by 11; and a signed and inscribed conte crayon drawing of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 11 by 8 in., (additional images laid in to volume, binding excellent).
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-11-13
