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Lot description
Oakley, Violet. LAW TRIUMPHANT. [N.p. but Philadelphia], [privately printed by Violet Oakley], [1932.] #37 of 300 copies, signed by Oakley on the limitation page. Folio, 15.5" x 11.25". In leather folio with copper-gilt clasps, with text volume and plates folder laid in, as issued. All 71 collotype plates are present and tipped onto bifolia over printed captions and plate numbers, plates are laid in printed folders, and those folders are all housed together in one large "Plates" folder. The text volume is complete with 114 pp. of text printed in red and black. Oakley was a groundbreaking female muralist. She was a self-appointed ambassador to the League of Nations from 1926 to 1929. She took up residence in Geneva and attended the 8th, 9th and 10th Assemblies of the League, where she made portraits of the delegates which form a large part of the present work. The present is a history of international law and a tribute to the League of Nations, illustrated with her murals from the Supreme Court Room and numerous portraits of delegates from the League of Nations. As stated on the colophon, the plates were done by the house of Max Jaffe of Vienna. Oakley was assisted by Harvey Hopkins Dunn for the typography, and the text was printed under the direction of Joseph Tatum of Philadelphia. The covers were done by Alfred Smith and Company of Philadelphia, and the metal clasps of copper-gilt done by Douglas Gilchrist.