Nov 29, 2007 - Sale 2130

Sale 2130 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 4,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(ARCHITECTURE.) The Architectural Work of Graham Anderson Probst & White, Chicago and Their Predecessors D. H. Burnham & Co. and Graham Burnham & Co. 385 photogravure plates. 2 volumes. Large, thick folio, gilt-stamped morocco by sangorski & sutcliffe, top edges gilt; slipcases. A bright, handsome set. London: Privately printed by B. T. Batsford, 1933

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number 177 of 300 sets of the most lavish architectural monograph devoted to an American firm. Printed for private circulation only, this copy Signed and presented by Ernest R. Graham to Mr. Samuel S. Drury, LLD. Founded in 1894, the firm executed some of the best known buildings in America such as Pennsylvania Station, Phila., Union Stations in Chicago and Washington, D. C., the Field Museum, Chicago, the Flatiron Building, New York, the Wrigley Building, Chicago, and department stores Wannamaker, both Philadelphia and New York branches, Marshall Field, Chicago, and Filenes, Boston.