Item #50329 VÅRT VACKRA STOCKHOLM. Henry B. Goodwin.
VÅRT VACKRA STOCKHOLM
VÅRT VACKRA STOCKHOLM
VÅRT VACKRA STOCKHOLM

VÅRT VACKRA STOCKHOLM: UTGIVET TILL FÖRMAN FÖR DANIEL FALLSTRÖM-FONDEN.

[Stockholm: Bröderna Lagerström Boktryckare, 1920]. Goodwin, Henry B. First edition. Folio, 165, [166-187] pp., original etching frontispiece with tissue guard, title page vignette, 39 b&w photogravures with tissue guards, 9 reproductions of etchings with tissue guards, 2 leaves of music. Quarter calf and linen with gilt title, decorative endpapers, t.e.g. Light wear and rubbing to the spine. A near fine copy. Issued in an edition of only 200 numbered copies. Item #50329

Richly toned photogravures by the Swedish photographer, Henry B. Goodwin (1878-1931) who was renowned within the international Pictorialist movement. The frontispiece is an original etching, a nude study, by Carl Larsson, SIGNED posthumously by his wife. The other etchings are by Olle Hjortzberg, Louis Sparre, Ernst Hällgren, Robert Haglund and others.

VART VACKRA STOCKHOLM (Our Beautiful Stockholm) was published as a commemorative (festschrift) volume dedicated to Daniel Fallström-Fonden. It is clear that in this collection of photographs, Goodwin was acquainted with, and greatly influenced by the work of Alvin Langdon Coburn, especially Coburn's LONDON and NEW YORK. Goodwin and Coburn knew each other and corresponded about their work. Rare.

Price: $3,000.00

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