Boardman Robinson [with original sketch]

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946. Hardcover. Good/Good. Folio (33 cm), pp. [vi], vii - xv, [i], 1 - 131, [3], 1 - 126 (plates). Gray cloth with gilt titling. Tan endpapers, publisher's top stain. Gray illustrated jacket. with $15 price. Color frontispiece, title page in red and black. Original sketch, 11" x 9 1/2" (28 x 24 cm), in blue ink of a kneeling figure, signed, "Sketch by Boardman Robinson," laid in. Includes chapters by Arnold Blanch and Adolf Dehn, bibliography, catalogue and index. The 126 illustrated plates are both black & white and color. Damage to foot of spine with loss of material. Jacket with chipping and several tears. An extensive and beautifully constructed monograph of the cartoonist turned painter, muralist and illustrator for many important books including Leaves of Grass and Moby Dick. (Inventory #: 39599)