The Gibson Book: A Collection of the Published Works of Charles Dana Gibson, Vol. 1, 1906, and Vol. 2, 1907
The Gibson Book A
Collection of the Published Works of Charles Dana Gibson In Two
Volumes Vol. 1, 1906 Vol. 2, 1907
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons R. H.
Russell
Eleven Gibson Works in Two Volumes Drawings Pictures of People London Sketches and Cartoons The Education of Mr. Pipp Americans A Widow and Her Friends The Social Ladder Eighty Drawings Including The Weaker Sex: The Story Of A Susceptible Bachelor Everyday People Our Neighbors
On every page of these two books, a fantastically executed captioned
illustration of high society in the late 1800s. Charles Dana Gibson
has managed to lovingly capture the follies of members of American high
society at home and abroad: facial and body expressions are spot on, the
drawings are executed with a great amount of skill, and the captions
are at once humorous and poignant. One can easily see that Gibson was a
master of human expression.
Gibson, the
creator of the iconic Gibson Girl, had his work featured in Harper's
Magazine, Scribner's, Collier's, and Life. He later became the editor
and owner of Life Magazine.
One of this
seller's personal favorite books in the Churchill Crocker Collection.
Red cloth with beveled edges 29cm x
44.5cm
Vol 1: Ex libris plate on
front pastedown Under one illustration, written in small,
neat pencil script: "Study for 'The Fish of M. Quissard' Harper's Mag."
which indeed can be found in the November 1986 issue. Condition: Good in Fair binding. Front
binding is beginning to be cracked, back binding is intact. Board
corners bumped. Minor fingerprints on front e.p.s, ffep has a small
tear on fore edge. Two illustration pages are wrinkled. Otherwise, a
clean interior.
Vol. 2: Condition: Good in Fair binding. Front binding is beginning to be cracked, back binding is intact. Board corners bumped. Title page has three creases. On one illustration, "Some think that she has remained in retirement too long. Others are surprised she is about so soon," Jacqueline, Age Six, has carefully colored in the table settings in crayon and signed her name and age in pencil.
