Education Of Henry Adams, 1942, Chamberlain illustrated

"The Education Of Henry Adams, the Autobiography", illustrated with gravures by Samuel Chamberlain, published by the Heritage Press, copyright by the Limited Edition Club, 1942.

This autobiography by the grandson of John Quincy Adams and the great-grandson of John Adams, first posthumously published in 1918, won the Pulitzer Price and was named by the Modern Library as the best English-language nonfiction book of the 20th century.

Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) was an American historian and member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. Presidents. As a young Harvard graduate, he was secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln's ambassador to the United Kingdom. The posting influenced the younger man through the experience of wartime diplomacy, and absorption in English culture, especially the works of John Stuart Mill. After the American Civil War, he became a political journalist who entertained America's foremost intellectuals at his homes in Washington and Boston. During his lifetime, he was best known for his "History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison", a nine-volume work, praised for its literary style.

Samuel Chamberlain (1895-1975), printmaker, photographer, author, lecturer, and teacher. He studied architecture at the University of Washington under Carl Gould. By 1915, he was enrolled in the School of Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. With the United States involvement in the first World War, Chamberlain sailed to France where he volunteered in the American Field Service. After the war, he returned to Boston and resumed his architectural studies, which he eventually discontinued and tried for a few years to work as a commercial artist.
1924 in Paris, he studied lithography with Gaston Dorfinant and etching and drypoint with Edouard Leon. He published his first etching the following year. In 1927, he studied drypoint with Malcolm Osborne at the Royal College of Art in London. He taught part time at the School of Architecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and the School of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology between his travels abroad. Chamberlain eventually settled for a dozen years in France. He authored, and sometimes co-authored, with his wife Narcissa, "Domestic Architecture of Rural France", "Clementine in the Kitchen", "New England Rooms" 1639-1863, and "Charleston Interiors".

Chamberlain was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Institute of Architects, the American Society of the French Legion of Honor, the Boston Camera Club, the Boston Printmakers, the Chicago Society of Etchers, Photographic Society of America, the Print Club of Albany, the Society of American Etchers, and was elected an Academician in the National Academy of Design. His work is represented in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Academy Museum, the Harvard Art Museums, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

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Condition Report: Hard boards, marbled cloth boards, brown-color spine with gold lettering [very little soiling and wear, two pen-drawn lines on spine: see photo]; 7” x 10.1/8”; frontispiece, 483 pages including Index; 12 plates including frontis; laid paper, two page corner folds, very good/ fine condition