[Picture Book: Progressive Artists's Proofs] Author: Charlot, Jean Place: Los Angeles Publisher: Date: 1933 Description: 4 volumes. Original watercolor frontispiece; 373 progressive color proofs for 32 lithographs. 11x8¼", quarter leather, patterned printed cloth; endpapers with same pattern as cloth. One of four sets gathered and bound. Original watercolor inscribed "For Merle Armitage Merry Christmas 1933. Jean Charlot L. A."; many of the lithographs signed by Charlot; each volume with ownership signature of Merle Armitage Very special unique association set. Armitage designed Charlot's Picture Book of 32 original lithographs published in 1933 in a limited edition of 500 copies. The other bound sets were given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lynton R. Kistler (the typesetter for the limited edition) and the last copy was retained by the artist. Lot Amendments Condition: Near fine. Item number: 310016
[Picture Book: Progressive Artists's Proofs] Author: Charlot, Jean Place: Los Angeles Publisher: Date: 1933 Description: 4 volumes. Original watercolor frontispiece; 373 progressive color proofs for 32 lithographs. 11x8¼", quarter leather, patterned printed cloth; endpapers with same pattern as cloth. One of four sets gathered and bound. Original watercolor inscribed "For Merle Armitage Merry Christmas 1933. Jean Charlot L. A."; many of the lithographs signed by Charlot; each volume with ownership signature of Merle Armitage Very special unique association set. Armitage designed Charlot's Picture Book of 32 original lithographs published in 1933 in a limited edition of 500 copies. The other bound sets were given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lynton R. Kistler (the typesetter for the limited edition) and the last copy was retained by the artist. Lot Amendments Condition: Near fine. Item number: 310016
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