Apr 02, 2009 - Sale 2175

Sale 2175 - Lot 42

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(DERRYDALE PRESS.) Vosburgh, Walter Spencer. Cherished Portraits of Thoroughbred Horses from the Collection of Willliam Woodward. 68 uncolored heliogravure plates reproducing paintings in Woodward's collection. Half-title. Folio, original red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, slightly scuffed, few minor scratches on covers. [New York]: Privately Printed [for] Ernest R. Gee, 1929

Additional Details

first edition, limited to 300 copies, designed and printed by Eugene Connett at the Derrydale Press. "This was Connett''s first major work in fine book production" (Siegel). Mellon/Podeschi 373; Siegel 22. with signed inscriptions from woodward to William A. Law and from Law to Isaac H. Clothier, Jr.