Oct 21, 2002 - Sale 1947

Sale 1947 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 4,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 4,500
(COBURN, ALVIN LANGDON)<>
Cotton Waste, A Study of a Great Lancashire Industry.<> Designed and published by Charles W. Hobson. With 14 photogravures (including the frontispiece) by Coburn, each approximately 6x4 1/2 inches (15.2x11.4 cm.) and smaller, tipped to the original mounts. 4to, morocco-backed gilt-pictorial vellum, lightly soiled; minor discoloration on endpapers, upper right corner of mounts lightly dampstained (not affecting images); leather ties (split). first edition.<> (Manchester): (William C. Jones, Ltd.), (1920)
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This rare copy of Coburn's handsome pictorial study of the mills of William C. Jones Ltd. was intended for circulation to the firm's customers. The pictures, which follow a 14-page descriptive text, depict "the origin and growth of the cotton trade and the cotton-waste trade in particular." Coburn, a master of light and shadow, predominantly shows women engaged in the down-and-dirty activities of factory work. Companion images include 3 lyrical street scenes, and men pushing handtrucks or transporting huge bales of cotton on their backs.<