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Large folio, 42 x 30 cm. Limited edition, copy 273 of 300 with more than 2000 photogravure plates. Predecessors D. H. Burnham & Co. and Graham Burnham & Co., and among the most lavish architectural monographs devoted to an American firm. Printed for private circulation only, this copy signed and presented by Ernest R. Graham to Mr. James P. Foraker. Later gift inscription by Mr. Foraker below. Graham was involved in the engineering and design of Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and a co-founder of this firm. Founded in 1894, they executed some of the best known buildings in America such as Pennsylvania Station, Philadelphia, Union Stations in Chicago and Washington, D. C., the Field Museum, Chicago, the Flatiron Building, New York, the Wrigley Building, Chicago, and department stores Wannamaker, both Philadelphia and New York branches, Marshall Field, Chicago, and Filenes, Boston. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. tiny paint dot to one volume, some light flecking to gilt rules, marbled endpapers. A very bright, handsome set. Large thick folio gilt-stamped brown morocco. Near fine in slipcases with a few stains. Teg. 2 Vols. Seller Inventory # 23984
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