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Premier Catalog Auction - Session III

Sat, Nov 17, 2018 09:00AM EST
Lot 1538

The Etched Work of Whistler

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

[Illustrated by Reproductions in Collotype of the Different States of the Plates], Compiled, Arranged and Described by Edward G. Kennedy, with an Introduction by Royal Cortissoz, New York: The Grolier Club of the City of New York, 1910, one of 402 copies, the text volume plus six volumes of plates, catalog raisonne, the most exhaustive work ever published concerning the master etcher, with reproductions of each of Whistler's etchings in every known state, over 1,000 reproductions, the text volume is in paper boards with cloth spine, [paper is scratched in places, rubbed at the extremities, bookplate on the front pastedown, otherwise very good], the plate volumes are half leather over cloth boards, with 442 numbered plates, plus an appendix of four plates, [extremities are rubbed, corners bumped, leather spines are chipped, good only]