The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans (4-volume set)

Published by Arno Press and New York Times, New York, 1970

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4 vols. Green cloth, gilt letters on spines and front covers, with gilt decoration on front cover; 1582 total pp., 100+ BW engravings. The complete four-volume set, a reprint of the original published between 1834 and 1839. With a new introduction by Robert G. Stewart. Contains biographies and portraits of 144 "distinguished Americans" of the first decades of the United States, as rendered by 50 artists and 24 engravers. "In many cases, the portrait engravings from it have become the best known likenesses of the subjects, and are still being reproduced as likenesses, but now through photographs of the engravings." (p. xi) The fourth volume includes an index to the subjects, artists, and engravers. VG- (Ex-art library, with labels on spines, i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages, incl. rear pockets; some scuffs to some covers; pages are clean.).

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Title
The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans (4-volume set)
Author
Longacre, James B. and James Herring
Publisher
Arno Press and New York Times, New York
Publication year
1970
Binding
Hardcover
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American Art, General Art - American

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Mullen Books maintains a very active computerized inventory which grows by 2-300 titles per week. Our specialties include the Humanities, with an emphasis on Art, Architecture, Photography, Decorative Arts, History, as well as Periodicals related to those areas. We have very rare as well as fairly common titles. Current inventory is approximately 79,000 titles. We have about 1000' of backlog in our specialties numbering over 30,000 items (including 20,000+ smaller and ephemeral catalogues devoted to individual artist exhibitions). Current stock occupies over 2.3 miles of shelving. We are active buyers as well as very active sellers, and supply entire reference libraries as well as individual titles. We ship books almost everywhere, with the exception of China due to restrictions. Our website mullenbooks.com maintains our entire database of over 150,000 titles dynamically, so you can submit "wants" for books which are listed, but not currently in-stock. It is a major research tool. Despite what Google may indicate, we are only open to visitors by appointment, as our schedules are dynamic depending upon the needs of our valued employees.

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Exhibition catalogues, Misc. art, History, American Art, European Art, Art, art theory and criticism, Photography, art technique and instructional books, art periodicals

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