Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr., Whose Ideals of Scholarship are Perpetuated in The Belknap Press at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Establishment of a Research Library of American Painting Bearing His Name At The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware
Cambridge: Printed by the Anthoensen Press for the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1956. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 26; frontispiece; additional sepia halftone plate in text (reproduction of bookplate for the library) and two additional plates; original blue paper wrappers with a paste-on title label in salmon to the upper wrapper;. Very good. Item #18116
Appreciation by Alice Winchester; note on the Belknap Press by William Jackson; text of the gift and acceptance by the Winterthur Corporation; essay on the research library by Charles Coleman sellers. The Belknap Research Library on early American painting was established at The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware. A nicely printed well produced pamphlet.
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