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Author: Catlin, George
Title: Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, & Condition of the North American Indians. With Letters and Notes, Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing
Place Published: London
Publisher:Chatto & Windus
Date Published: 1876
Description:

2 volumes. viii, 264; viii, 265, [1] pp. With 180 chromolithograph plates (including 3 maps, one of which is folding), reproducing works by Catlin, many with multiple images. 25.1x15.2 cm (10x6"), rebacked red pictorial cloth retaining original pictorially stamped boards & spines.

Pages largely unopened. Important study of the American Indians by artist & anthropologist, George Catlin who visited 48 Indian tribes on his tour of the West & executed some 600 paintings. This is a later edition of Letters and Notes on...North American Indians, first published in 1841, and it is noteworthy as being the first edition to have the plates printed in color, although some copies of earlier editions had the plates colored by hand. The hundreds of illustrations were reduced from the original paintings under Catlin's supervision, and portray all aspects of Indian life, including life in their villages, games, dances, funerals, sudatories, religious ceremonies, buffalo hunting, etc., plus detailed descriptions & depictions of native dress & physiognomy. Howes C241.

Original boards slightly bumped at corners with light fraying; a few starting or detached and laid-in plates; very good overall.