Published by The Vagabond Press, Menomonie, Wisconsin, 1977
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Brown Wrappers, String-tied Bi. Condition: Fine. Limited Editio,. Paper label front cover. One of 60 copies. The paper is handmade book by Dard Hunter, marbled wrappers of Linweave Spectra. Printed for the Typecrafters, this is copy #36/60. Signed by Lloyd Whydotski. 8pp. Size: 4 1/2" x 6". Signed by Publisher.
Seller: Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA), Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Signed
[Weimar, Germany?: np, 1794?]. Laid paper. Platemark trimmed. Sheet size: 7 x 4¼ inches. Late eighteenth-century portrait of Benjamin Franklin, a stipple engraving by Conrad Westermayer, signed "C. Westermayer fecit 1794." Based upon the portrait made by the royal Manufacture Nationale at Sèvres between 1778 to 1779. Mitchell Sale 424 "Very rare." For the Sèvres medallions, etc., see Sellers, Franklin in Portraiture, p365 and Plates 12 and 14. Not in Weitenkampf.
Seller: Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA), Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Signed
Zwickau: b.d. Geb. Schumann, 1822. Platemark: 7¼ x 4?? inches. Sheet size: 9¾ x 7?? inches. Scattered foxing; old annotations in pencil to verso. Stipple octagon-shaped engraving signed "N. Cochen del. F. Bolt Sc. 1822" and showing Benjamin Franklin with his iconic glasses and coon skin hat; based on Charles Nicolas Cochin's 1777 portrait. "This was probably the first likeness of Franklin taken after his arrival in France. It was certainly by far the most popular. The Canadian fur cap is worn in sturdy independence of fashionable usage, and the Doctor's mouth, and the glance through his spectacles, carry out the idea." (Sellers, Catalogue of the Society's Exhibition of Portraits of Benjamin Franklin, 373) Not in Weitenkampf. Not in Sellers, Franklin in Portraiture.