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Description:
The White House Gallery of Official Portraits of the Presidents. New York: Gravure Company of America, [1901]. Limited edition, copy number 627, illustrated with engraved versions of the Presidential portraits that hang in the White House of twenty-four Presidents: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, W.H. Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, and McKinley; in publisher's half leather and original box, with presentation bookplate dated 1903; joints cracked, boards becoming detached, 20 x 16 in.
Estimate $300-500
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Benjamin Harrison, John Quincy Adams, Van Buren, Lincoln, ClevelandJohn Dorfman
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