Edward S. Curtis, The North American Indian Volumes, Peabody Set I-XX, TEXT BLOCK ONLY,1907 - 1930 + The complete CFA Republication Reference Edition,

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  Edward S. Curtis
  (1868 - 1952)
  The North American Indian Volumes, Peabody Set I-XX, TEXT BLOCK ONLY, 1907 - 1930 + The complete CFA Republication Reference Edition, 2017
  hand-set letterpress text on Holland Van Gelder paper
  To supplement this original set of books, included is a Reference Edition Republication set of The North American Indian. Published by Christopher Cardozo Fine Art, The Reference Edition recreates with exacting detail the information contained in the original set of books and portfolios and includes all 2,234 photographs.
  
  The North American Indian being a Series of Volumes Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska. Edited by Fredrick Webb Hodge. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Field Research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. [Cambridge, Mass.], 1907-1930.
  
  signed in black ink on page xvii: Edward S Curtis 1907
  
  20 VOLUMES: Quarto (313 x 239 mm): In publisher’s original brown half morocco gilt and buckrum, top edges gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by H. Blackwell or Whitman Bennett. Each numbered 76 in ink on the verso of the half-title page.
  
  TEXT VOLUMES: *Special Note: All photogravures have been carefully removed from volumes I-XX. Over three thousand pages of text and transcriptions of language and music. Still present are the following prints/illustrations:
  Volume 3, pg.44, the foldout “Custer Battlefield map”
  Volume 5, pg.64, “Ground Plan of Arikara Medicine-lodge”
  Volume 8, pgs.160 and 182, “Map of Nez Percé Territory” and “Map of Chinook Territory”, respectively
  Volume 20, pg.3, “Map Showing the Dialects and Hunting Territories of the Coast
  Eskimo of Alaska Village”.
  
  LIMITED EDITION: Number 76 of 500 proposed sets of which only 214 were originally subscribed to, and only 272 sets ultimately produced, this copy on India Proof Paper (“tissue”) tipped-in on Dutch Van Gelder, Volume I, signed by Edward S. Curtis and dated 1907. The exact number of original subscriber sets that were printed on tissue is not known but it is estimated to be fewer than 15. Edward Curtis, J.P. Morgan, E.H. Harriman and the King of England were among the few who received this premium version. The finest and most important obtainable complete set of Volumes of Curtis’ monumental work, The North American Indian. A unique pairing of an original set of volumes from The North American Indian, Edward S. Curtis’ 20 volume 20 portfolio magnum opus, and a Reference Edition Republication set of The North American Indian. Numbered 76, the original subscriber to this set was the Peabody Institute of Baltimore Maryland. The set was sold by Sotheby’s in 1989 to benefit the George Peabody Library of John Hopkins University. The set was subsequently broken apart, meaning that the portfolio prints were separated from their respective portfolios and offered individually, and that all the photogravure images were carefully removed from the volumes and sold individually. This was a somewhat common practice in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s when complete sets could be purchased relatively inexpensively. Although the images have been removed from this set of books, all the original text pages and original bindings remain intact, making this a stunning and unique visual and conversational addition to a collector’s or enthusiast’s library.
  12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (31.75 x 24.13 cm.)
  The Peabody Institute, original subscriber; Peabody Library
  Private Colletor(s)
  The Christopher G. Cardozo Collection, 1998
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