An Early American Queen Anne Escritoire, 1715-1730.

By Ross H. Maynard.
Privately printed for the author by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press: 1929. Edition limited to 200 copies.

Maynard, an early collector and dealer in East Middlebury, Vermont, owned this distinctive piece; he asked Carl G. Beede to write the poetical, if slightly overawed essay describing it. The piece was subsequently purchased by John J. Gunther of York, Maine, and sold at the dispersal of his important collection in 1960. A beautifully produced early American furniture monograph, an excellent example of the sort of high-quality, spare-no-expense monograph which was popular with the early generations of Americana collectors and dealers. The printer, Daniel Berkeley Updike [1860-1941] worked for the Riverside Press and trained as a printer, setting up his own Merrymount Press in 1896. He specialized in  historical printing styles of the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Semowich 898.

Hardcover. 7.5"x10", 10 pages of text plus 5 gravure plates; original paper covered boards and cloth spine; marbled endpapers. Stamped "Printer's Copy". Light wear, corner bump, minor soil.

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