Nov 10, 2009 - Sale 2195

Sale 2195 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(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 80 of 300 sets. one of 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. Arthur Williams. 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.