James H. Ricau, an individual of great vision and taste, if limited financial means, assembled one of the most important collections of 19th-century American marble sculpture, eventually acquired by the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia. This comprehensive volume coincides with the opening of a special gallery at the museum devoted to these 70 neoclassical masterworks. 73 color plates. 135 b&w.
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James H. Ricau, an individual of great vision and taste, if limited financial means, assembled one of the most important collections of 19th-century American marble sculpture, eventually acquired by the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia. This comprehensive volume coincides with the opening of a special gallery at the museum devoted to these 70 neoclassical masterworks. 73 color plates. 135 b&w.
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Very Good to Near Fine. Very Good to Near Fine Jacket. 1st Printing. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. pp. 280. 280 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good to near fine dust jacket. First Edition. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.
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VG/VG. Grey cloth/white & black DJ. 280 pp. 73 color, 135 bw plates. Includes a foreword by William Hennessey, a preface, and 2 essays: "A Shared Passion--New York Collectors of 19th-Century American Art in the 1950s" by William Gerdts and "James H. Ricau as a Collector of Sculpture" by H. Nichols Clark. Also includes an annotated catalogue of 70 sculptures with gorgeous full-page color illustrations, provenance, bibliography, exhibition history, when known, and an 8-page index.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. Near Fine hardcover in a NF dustjacket. Folio measuring 12 by 9 inches. 280pp including index. Profusely illustrated with b/w and full color plates. James H. Ricau's collection of nineteeth century marble sclupter now in the Chryster Museum in Norfolk Virginia.
