Lot 320
The White House Gallery of Official Portraits of the Presidents - Executive Edition. Oversize volume, 20" x 16½", published by The Gravure Company of America, 1906. First published in 1901, this volume retains the original table of contents, which lists presidents Washington through McKinley, but includes President Theodore Roosevelt. The format is a 14½" x 9½" plate of each President with an opposing page of biography, written by a prominent personage, followed by two blank pages, on which documents of that President can be mounted. The leather covers are worn and scuffed; however, the huge 8¾" gilt Presidential Seal on the cover is intact; it is inscribed "The Presidents" along the lower edge. Navy silk inside cover and marbled first end page. The interior is lightly toned but otherwise fine. This copy was registered and numbered 3744 and allotted to Ezra Dixon Jr. on December 2, 1906 by J. O'Kane Rose. Rare.
Estimated Value $1,000 - 2,000.
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