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Show 138 Darlington Library, University of Pittsburg, The Lilly Library, Indiana University, and The New York Public Library all have atlases either completely or partially colored in this manner. See Appendix D, Locations of Collections, for details of these atlases. 57. Acta 1, nos. 91-92. By contract, Ackermann & Company was free to reduce the number of each print it accepted to one hundred, if sales were disappointing. The details of publication for the English edition are based upon the original contract signed by Ackermann & Company in the Joslyn Art Museum archives. A copy of the English prospectus has not been located and it, as well as the Ackermann archives, might yield additional information regarding the English publication of Travels. 58. Even though Ackermann & Company did not issue the English edition of Travels in fascicles, the prints Bodmer and Bertrand sent to the London publisher were shipped, as they were finished, in the same sequence as issued to German subscribers. Ackermann accepted two hundred copies of the first ten issues of prints, and only one hundred of the last ten issues. 59. Bertrand's subscription options for the French edition of Travels varied considerably from the German edition. See Appendix C, French prospectus. 60. Bertrand agreed to accept between twenty-five and thirty color-printed impressions of each print. However, sales for the French edition were also poor. It is not unreasonable to suppose that he would have decided to accept the lower figure of twenty-five. Since Bertrand was responsible for shipping the prints to Ackermann, he may have sent some of these color-printed impressions to London to further reduce his losses. The original contract with Ackermann & Company did not include purchase of any of the color-printed plates. 61. It must be assumed that Ackermann & Company never colored the extra one hundred impressions of the first ten issues of plates, which could obviously not be bound into atlas form. It might be supposed that there are still in existence some uncolored impressions, printed on imperial vellum paper. This is, indeed, the case. The collection held by the University of Utah, for example, has several examples of black and white impressions printed on imperial vellum. It is also likely that, if Ackermann's sales were slow, the total number of bound atlases may have been reduced and that some of the remaining one hundred sets of prints were also not painted. |
