Lot 219
Loose bindings, with broken spine, separated endpaper, a waterstain affecting the right margin of the first few leaves, not interfering with the text, and the leather cover worn at edges and feathered at the spine. Though condition is only Good, the presidential portraits themselves and the text are intact. The Presidents. The White House Gallery of Official Portraits of the Presidents. Limited Edition, elephant Folio, 16½"x20," approximately 50 pages, 1906, The Gravure Company of America, New York and Washington, with an oversize medal rendition of the Presidential Seal on the cover. Bound in dark brown calf. Being a collection of fine wood-block print reproductions of the official portraits of the first 26 U.S. Presidents as they hang in the White House, most having been commissioned by order of Congress. With a historical and biographical review of the life and administration of each President on facing page.
Estimated Value $350 - 500.
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