[CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE]. –– [GRAHAM, ANDERSON, PROBST & WHITE]. The Architectural Work of Graham Anderson Probst & White, Chicago and Their Predecessors D. H. Burnham & Co. and Graham Burnham & Co. London: Privately Published by B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1933.
2 volumes, folio (406 x 292 mm). 385 photogravure plates. Original brown levant triple ruled in gilt, spines in 6 compartments with large bands gilt, gilt titling and fillets in compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, GILT STAMP–SIGNED BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE (some darkening to vol. I upper cover, also with a faint vertical indentation, else fine).
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 152 of 300 copies for presentation, addressed to Mr. Britton I. Budd (1871-1965) and SIGNED BY ERNEST P. GRAHAM on the limitation. Budd was the right-hand-man to utilities magnate, Samuel Insull, overseeing the daily operations of the Chicago roads as well as being named President of all four Chicago “L” companies.
ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY AN ASSOCIATE OF THE FIRM, Charles F. Murphy (1890-1985), who is mentioned in the prefatory note, to Peter Pomnitz- a “young architect of a later generation”. Founded in 1912 as successor to Burnham, the firm was responsible for some of Chicago’s most notorious buildings including the Field Museum of Natural History, Union Station, Wrigley Building, Merchandise Mart; even The Flatiron building in New York.