Boston: Cupples, Upham & Co, 1883. 

4to. (9 1/2 by12 inches), 126 pp., 57 plates. A rare collection of original American Art in brown half-leather over marbled boards, top edges gilt. General wearing to covers; art club library label to front pastedown; internally clean and bright.

Part one includes a catalogue listing 731 works of art by American artists and by 40 Albertype illustrations of representative examples of these works.

Part two contains 17 original etchings by R.C. Minor; Henry Farrer; Benjamin Lander; Charles Volkmar; William Hart; J.A.S. Monks; Stephen Parrish; Charles A. Platt; J.C. Nicholl; Henry W. Rice; H.C. Ford; G.W.H. Ritchie; Thomas Moran; W.H. Shelton; A.H. Bicknell; Joseph Lauber; and George L. Brown, et al. 

Part three is titled 'Various Phases of American Art' with 21 articles on wide-ranging aspects of American Fine and Decorative arts. 

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