PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY AND THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND LETTERS.
Vol. I: 1909-1910.
- Boston: The De Vinne Press, 1910.
- large 8vo
- cord-tied paper wrappers
- 46 pages
Price: $150.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 141024
First edition, first printing of Volume One of this important periodical. Signed by Robert Underwood Johnson on the front cover in ink. A near fine copy. Robert Underwood Johnson was the editor of the Century magazine. Contents include the Opening Address of the President of the American Academy, William Dean Howells, The Evolution of Style in Modern Architecture, by Thomas Hastings, In Praise of Poetry, by Richard Watson Gilder, The Actual State of Art Among Us by Edwin Howland Blashfield, among others. The printer of the Century was Theodore DeVinne of New York.


