Dec 01, 2016 - Sale 2433

Sale 2433 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
COBURN, ALVIN LANGDON and G.K. CHESTERTON. London. 10 tipped-in photogravure plates by Coburn featuring landmark sights including Big Ben, St. Paul's, Parliament, and Tower Bridge. 8vo, publisher's cream linen-backed printed tan boards, spine age-toned and a bit frayed at the ends, covers slightly browned along edges. London: Chiswick Press for Coburn, Brooks, and friends, 1914

Additional Details

first trade edition. inscribed and signed by photographer alvin langdon coburn in the year of publication as a Christmas gift to his friend, collector Eugene Plunkett. An elegant work privately printed at the Chiswick Press for Coburn, Edmund D. Brooks, and their friends. Parr & Badger, The Photobook, a History, Vol. 1, #74.