Peters, Harry T.

Currier & Ives. Printmakers to the American People.

New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942. 23.5 cm x 40 cm. XVI, 41 pages. With 192 Plates. With 247 black and white illustrations and 32 colour illustrations. This special edition of Currier & Ives is set in 12 pt. Caslon Monotype with hand-drawn decorative initials. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Cloth boards age-toned and with some minor staining. Minor foxing to edges, endpapers and pastedowns. Faded blue decoration to top edges. Gilt title on spine. A very unique and special collection of timeless prints. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen Translator- Erik C. Haugaard.

Includes for example the following artists: Louis Maurer / Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait / Fanny Palmer / Charles Parsons etc
Includes for example the following prints: American Express Train / The Always Ready American Fireman / American National Game of Baseball, The / Birds Eye View of Mt. Vernon, the Home of Washington / Branding Slaves / The Skating Pond Central Park, Winter / Dartmouth College / The Declaration of Independence July 4th 1776 / The Four Seasons of Life: Old Age “The Season of Rest” / George Washington First President of the United States / The Home of the Deer. Morning in the Adirondacks / Midnight Race on the Mississippi / The Morning Recreation / The Puzzled Fox / Prairie Hens / The Winter Road / Tom Sayers Champion of England / Winter in the Country. Getting Ice / View of New York. From Brooklyn Heights / The Windmill / A Philosopher in Ecstasy / The Old Barn Floor / Northern Scenery / Preparing for Market etc.

Currier and Ives was a successful American printmaking firm based in New York City from 1835 to 1907 headed first by Nathaniel Currier, and later jointly with his partner James Merritt Ives. The prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand colored. Lithographic prints could be reproduced quickly and purchased inexpensively, and the firm called itself “the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints” and advertised its lithographs as “colored engravings for the people”. The firm adopted the name “Currier and Ives” in 1857. (Wikipedia)

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 200256AB

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