Currier & Ives, printmakers to the American people / by Harry T. Peters
1943, First Edition. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #284073
Physical description; xvi pages, 2 leaves, 41 pages : 192 plates (some color ; including frontispiece, portraits, facsimiles) on 96 leaves ; 31 x 24 cm. Contents; I. Colored engravings for the people -- II. Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives -- III. Prints at six cents apiece wholesale -- IV. The artists -- Louis Maurer -- Thomas Worth -- Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait -- Fanny Palmer -- George Henry Durrie -- Charles Parsons -- V. The prints -- Views -- Political cartoons and banners -- Portraits -- Historical prints -- Certificates, moral and religious prints -- Sentimental prints -- Prints for children -- Country and pioneer home scenes -- Humor -- Lithographed sheet music -- Mississippi River prints -- Railroad prints -- Emancipation, speculation -- Horse prints -- Sporting events. Subjects; Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888). Currier & Ives (Printmakers). Currier and Ives (Firm). Lithography, American. Lithography 19th century United States. United States ; Pictorial works. Genre; Illustrated.
Price: €30.00