An evocative literary and architectural portrait of New York's great thoroughfare at the height of the Progressive Era, illustrated throughout with Lester G. Hornby's atmospheric drawings of Broadway's streets, landmarks, theaters, and urban life. Published in 1911 by Houghton Mifflin Company. 8vo (6” x 8.75”), publisher’s decorative gray-green pictorial cloth stamped in olive and gilt, top edge gilt. 191 pages, b/w illustrations.
An early association copy bearing the contemporary ownership inscription of Clarence J. Bulliet, dated 1911 and identifying him as "Dramatic Critic, The Indianapolis Star." Although little known today outside specialist circles, Bulliet would emerge during the 1920s and 1930s as one of America's foremost advocates of modern art, architecture, and industrial design, championing figures including Stuart Davis, Diego Rivera, the International Style, and the Machine Age. His ownership, recorded in the year of publication while still engaged in theatrical criticism, creates an unusually apt historical connection between this celebration of Broadway and the formative years of a critic whose interests would later expand from the performing arts to the architecture and visual culture of modernism. All tissue guards intact.
Light rubbing and bumping to boards, affecting top corner of first dozen leaves. Some fraying to cloth at spine ends.
An evocative literary and architectural portrait of New York's great thoroughfare at the height of the Progressive Era, illustrated throughout with Lester G. Hornby's atmospheric drawings of Broadway's streets, landmarks, theaters, and urban life. Published in 1911 by Houghton Mifflin Company. 8vo (6” x 8.75”), publisher’s decorative gray-green pictorial cloth stamped in olive and gilt, top edge gilt. 191 pages, b/w illustrations.
An early association copy bearing the contemporary ownership inscription of Clarence J. Bulliet, dated 1911 and identifying him as "Dramatic Critic, The Indianapolis Star." Although little known today outside specialist circles, Bulliet would emerge during the 1920s and 1930s as one of America's foremost advocates of modern art, architecture, and industrial design, championing figures including Stuart Davis, Diego Rivera, the International Style, and the Machine Age. His ownership, recorded in the year of publication while still engaged in theatrical criticism, creates an unusually apt historical connection between this celebration of Broadway and the formative years of a critic whose interests would later expand from the performing arts to the architecture and visual culture of modernism. All tissue guards intact.
Light rubbing and bumping to boards, affecting top corner of first dozen leaves. Some fraying to cloth at spine ends.
