CURRIER & IVES: Printmakers to the American People.
Pp. xx+42, 192 plates (32 coloured, the others tinted), black & white decorative initials; med. 4to; beige buckram, spine blocked in black and lettered & ruled in gilt, upper board with wide decorative border in blue around a large coloured pictorial onlay, the cloth lightly soiled and foxed, edges a trifle rubbed, spine browned and slightly flecked; text block faintly browned at edges, endpapers and edges of leaves slightly foxed; Doubleday, Doran & co., Inc., New York, 1942. Special edition. *Originally published in two volumes. Harry Twyford Peters (1881-1948) was a leading collector of Americana, and an expert on the prints produced by Currier & Ives, a printmaking firm that operated in New York City between 1835 and 1907, producing and selling lithographic works based on news events and popular culture. Item #175958
Price: $75.00