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Dreyfus Collection
Artist: Clarence Kennedy (American, 1892-1972)
Date: 1930
Dimensions:
book: 26 x 19 1/8 in. (660 x 485mm)
page: 25 3/16 x 17 5/16 in. (640 x 440mm)
Medium: Rare book with original gelatin silver photographs
Place of Origin: Florence
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Transferred from the Toledo Museum of Art Library, Gift of Joseph Duveen
Object number: 2001.20
DescriptionLimited edition, fine press book. [8] leaves, XXVII plates with mounted photographs, [1] leaf. Cream wove paper case bound into wooden spine and boards, covered with cream wove cloth and stamped with title.
Limited edition, fine press book. [8] leaves, XXVII plates with mounted photographs, [1] leaf. Cream wove paper case bound into wooden spine and boards, covered with cream wove cloth and stamped with title. Introduction by photographer dated 1930. Colophon: "The plates of the sculpture of the Dreyfus collection were printed on Vitava paper under the supervision of Clarence Kennedy directly from negatives on Panchromatic film. The printing and binding were conceived and executed at 7 via Giordani, Florence by Maryla & Samuel Tyszkiewicz at their private Press of which this is the sixth publication. The text in "Nicolas Cochin" type cast in Florence, was printed on whole rag paper especially prepared at the mills in Pescia for the Press and bearing its watermark. Of the present edition twenty four numbered copies have been prepared and signed by the printer issued during the last days of December 1930." This volume is signed but not numbered.
Limited edition, fine press book. [8] leaves, XXVII plates with mounted photographs, [1] leaf. Cream wove paper case bound into wooden spine and boards, covered with cream wove cloth and stamped with title. Introduction by photographer dated 1930. Colophon: "The plates of the sculpture of the Dreyfus collection were printed on Vitava paper under the supervision of Clarence Kennedy directly from negatives on Panchromatic film. The printing and binding were conceived and executed at 7 via Giordani, Florence by Maryla & Samuel Tyszkiewicz at their private Press of which this is the sixth publication. The text in "Nicolas Cochin" type cast in Florence, was printed on whole rag paper especially prepared at the mills in Pescia for the Press and bearing its watermark. Of the present edition twenty four numbered copies have been prepared and signed by the printer issued during the last days of December 1930." This volume is signed but not numbered.
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