Drawn between January and March 1912, Pennell, who was afraid that he had arrived in Panama too late to get the pictures he wanted, found instead that the construction was exactly at the right stage. As his world-famous lithographs show, "industry at the Canal was on a colossal scale. The locks were yawning gulfs, their stupendous arches and buttresses not yet hidden as they would be once the water was let in." Joseph Pennell was born in 1857 and died in 1926. He began his work as an illustrator by selling drawings of south ...
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Drawn between January and March 1912, Pennell, who was afraid that he had arrived in Panama too late to get the pictures he wanted, found instead that the construction was exactly at the right stage. As his world-famous lithographs show, "industry at the Canal was on a colossal scale. The locks were yawning gulfs, their stupendous arches and buttresses not yet hidden as they would be once the water was let in." Joseph Pennell was born in 1857 and died in 1926. He began his work as an illustrator by selling drawings of south Philadelphia to Scribner's Monthly in 1881. In addition to his extensive sketches of American cities, he went to the Panama Canal and sketched a number of construction sites. He taught etching at the Arts Students' league in New York, wrote several books, served as an art critic on the Brooklyn Eagle, and helped run the New Society of Sculptors, Painters & Engravers. Pennell is considered to have done more than any other one artist of his time to improve the quality of illustration both in the United States and abroad and to raise its status as an art. He produced more than 900 etched and mezzotint plates, some 621 lithographs, and innumerable drawings and water colors.
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Very Good. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. J.B. Lippincott Co., 1912, First Edition, 4to, illustrations. Hardcover edition, no dust jacket, bopok very good.
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Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket 5th edition. (Panama Canal, Lithography, Art) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.
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Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Lippincott, 1912. Quarto. Book is very good. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
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Book. Octavo; 13 pages and 28 plates; VG-; Bound in brown cloth with no text on spine; Rubbing to corners and along edges, slight fraying along spine edges, white marks on rear cover; Textblock has slight marking in pencil on front endpaper; RWO. 1362906. Special Collections.
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Very good in poor dust jacket. First Edition Very good book, no dust jacket. First Edition. Twenty-eight "reproductions of a series of lithographs made by him on the Isthmus of Panama, January-March, 1912, together with impressions and notes by the artist." Front pasted illustration chipped. Spine bumped, covers slightly worn, gilt edged and edges rough cut. Heavy coated paper. Back endpaper has stamp of what may have been a distributor. Unpaginated. Interior in VG condition.
