HARLOW, LOUIS KINNEY | Army Memories. New York: Koch, Sons, & Co, 1887

HARLOW, LOUIS KINNEY 

Army Memories. New York: Koch, Sons, & Co, 1887

Folio (18 3/8 x 16 in.). 12 mounted tinted (2) or chromo-lithographed (10) plates, the first plate with an integral title on a plain card mount, the 11 others with card mounts decorated with tinted lithographic vignettes, all 12 of the mounts with paper labels with captions laid onto the verso, each label printed in blue with the plate number, title, and sub-title or related text, all signed by Harlow in pencil on the mount. Expertly bound to style in dark red half morocco over original dark green cloth-covered boards, upper cover titled in gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, second gilt-lettered, others with repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers.

The deluxe issue of one of the great American chromolithographically illustrated works—a wonderfully graphic representation of the Civil War

Harlow, who was born in Maine, lived in Boston, and was both an etcher and painter. His subjects (unlike the present series) were usually landscapes, and he provided the color lithographer Louis Prang with a stream of watercolor views of New England that were used in his illustrated works. The present series demonstrate Koch's mastery of both the technical aspects of printing as well as the aesthetic problems presented in the design of the book.