This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/18/2019
Group of Portrait Silhouette Reference Books. 7 pcs. Circa 1911/1985. Includes: Silhouettes: A Living Art by Peggy Hickman (first edition, 1975), Miniatures and Silhouettes by Max Von Boehn (1928), Shades of Our Ancestors by Alice van Leer Carrick (first edition, 1928), The Art of the Silhouette by Desmond Coke (first edition, 1913), Wedgewood Counterpoint by Harry Buten (1962; inscribed and signed by author; ephemera laid in), Auguste Edouart’s Silhouettes of Eminent Americans 1839-1844 by Andrew Oliver (1977), and Sotheby’s The Leonard Morgan May Collection of Silhouettes (1985). Profusely illustrated. 8vos/4tos. Very good. Provenance: From the personal library of the distinguished bookman and silhouette collector, Emerson Greenaway.