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Gustave Baumann's Book of Saints

Baumann, Gustave; Mary Austin; Peggy Pond Church; Carmella Padilla

$1,250
  • Condition: Near Fine
  • Edition: Limited edition
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: The Press at the Palace of the Governors
  • Location: Santa Fe, NM
  • Date: 2021
  • Seller SKU: 71212

Santa Fe, NM: The Press at the Palace of the Governors, 2021. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 93pp. Octavo [24.5cm]. Beautifully bound in dark gray cloth with a front folding flap. Paper title label on the spine and decorative paper on the front cover. The colophon states, "The 'curtain' design is based on a panel in the altarpiece at El Santuario de Chimayó, as is the motif on the cover of the book." The personal seal of Gustave Baumann, an open hand within a heart, is stamped in brown ink on the rear cover. In a limited edition of 108 copies, of which this is number 11.

German-born printmaker and painter Gustave Baumann (1881-1971) called Santa Fe, New Mexico home for the last fifty years of his life. He was heavily involved with the artistic community in the area.

Featuring 34 woodcut illustrations of patron saints. The relics serving as inspiration were viewed by Baumann within the borders of Santa Fe, though he notes "many of them have found their way to museums and are no longer available." With a previously unpublished essay entitled "Little Saints of New Mexico," by Mary Austin. In the preface, Baumann mentions that Austin's contribution was "probably her last manuscript, and of necessity I present it without the changes and additions we had contemplated.

Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA

Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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