WINTER HUNTERS 1908 Printers Proof Photogravure

EDWARD S. CURTIS. Winter Hunters - Apsaroke, 1908. 7.3x5.3" photogravure on 12.4x9.4" Japan Vellum paper. Print date 1909. From Volume 4, The Apsaroke, or Crows. The Hidatsa, of The North American Indian. Printed on print recto: Winter Hunters - Apsaroke / From Copyright Photograph 1908 by E.S. Curtis; inscribed in pencil: Vol IV / Plate 114 / 1 Jap. [indicating the printer made 1 Japan Vellum print to complete an order).

This print was used by the printers to fill in orders for new subscribers to The North American Indian. Costing over $3000 Curtis sold about 250 sets from 1905-1930. When prints were needed for later subscribers the printing companies would prepare and print needed prints as here, when they note on this that one more of this print on Japan Vellum was made.