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EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS (1858–1952) The North American Indian, Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska. Cambridge, Mass.: University Press; and Norwood, Mass.: Plimpton Press, 1907-1930. A COMPLETE SET OF CURTIS'S MASTERPIECE, LIMITED EDITION, number 88 of a proposed 500 sets. 20 PORTFOLIOS AND 20 TEXT VOLUMES. 723 Large-format photogravures in 20 portfolios, printed by John Andrew & Son, 1907-1916 (nos. 1-11), and Suffolk Engraving Co., 1922-1930 (nos. 12-20); each plate printed on Van Gelder paper with letterpress copyright credit, title, plate numbers and printers’ credit on margin; each image approximately 15½ x 11 in. (39.3 x 2 cm.) or inverse; each sheet 18 x 22 1/2 in. (45.7 x 57 cm.); each in half-morocco portfolio case with gilt-impressed portfolio number. Bookplates, ownership stamps and marks of New Bedford Free Public Library and Reed College Library on all portfolios and on each plate, not affecting image. Accompanied by 20 quarto text volumes (12¼ x 9 3/8 in., 31.3 x 23.9 cm.) printed by University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1907-1910 (vols. 1-5), and Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass., 1911-1930 (vols. 6-20); each volume printed on Japanese vellum, containing a total of 1,511 illustrations, comprising 1,505 photogravures, 4 maps and 2 diagrams; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, with foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; signed and dated '1907' by Curtis in ink (vol. 1, p. xvii); each volume numbered '88' in ink (on the inside title page and on the colophon); each bound in original brown three-quarter Levant morocco gilt by Henry Blackwell (vols. 1-14) and Whitman Bennett (vols. 15-20). Bookplates, ownership stamps and marks of New Bedford Free Public Library and Reed College on preliminary leaves and title pages. Provenance The Free Public Library New Bedford, Massachusetts (original subscriber), 1908; gifted by Louise G. Harper to Reed College, Portland, Oregon; acquired from the above by the present owner.