Oct 26, 2023 - Sale 2650

Sale 2650 - Lot 226

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(ARCHITECTURE.) The Architectural Work of Graham Anderson Probst & White. Chicago and Their Predecessors D. H. Burnham & Co. and Graham Burnham & Co. Over 2000 photogravure plates. 2 volumes. Large, thick folio, gilt-stamped brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top edges gilt, tiny paint dot to one volume, some light flecking to gilt rules; slipcases (few stains, edges rubbed). A bright, handsome example. Number 273 of 300 sets. Among the most lavish architectural monographs devoted to an American firm. Printed for private circulation only, this copy Signed and presented by Ernest R. Graham to Mr. James P. Foraker. Later gift inscription by Mr. Foraker below. 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. London: Privately printed by B. T. Batsford, 1933