ABBOTT, BERENICE (1898-1991)
Portfolio titled "Berenice Abbott, Portraits in Palladium, Paris--New York, 1926-1929." With 11 photographs of luminaries Abbott photographed early in her long career. Hand-coated palladium prints on Strathmore Bristol paper, sizes ranging from 2 1/2x3 1/2 to 4 1/2x3 1/2 inches (6.4x8.9 to 11.4x8.9 cm.) and the reverse, each with BA embossed on recto; each cornered into a mat also with BA embossed on the overmat and the portfolio stamp on the undermat verso. 4to-sized clamshell box with a gilt-lettered leather spine; with the colophon; contents loose as issued. one of an edition of 29, signed by abbott on the colophon. Commerce Graphis/Lunn Ltd., 1989