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WESTON, Edward (1886–1958). –– ARMITAGE, Merle (1893–1975). The Art of Edward Weston. New York: E. Weyhe, 1932. Small folio. Portrait frontispiece from a photograph by Brett Weston, 39 black & white full–page plates from photographs by Edward Weston. Original publisher’s printed paper backed glossy boards by Earle A. Gray (few faint scratches, spine a little sunned). Provenance: James S. Copley (bookplate). LIMITED EDITION, one of 550 copies SIGNED BY WESTON; this copy unnumbered, and additionally INSCRIBED BY ARMITAGE on appreciation page: “I have not looked at this book in 2 years, and I will risk seeming fatuous - or being a conceited fool - and say that this seems a good and appropriate book… 1936 Merle Armitage.” FIRST EDITION of the first full monograph on Weston, and one of the first on any American photographer.