Research Catalog

Title

Currier & Ives, printmakers to the American people / by Harry T. Peters.

Author

Peters, Harry Twyford, 1881-1948.

Publication

• Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Doran, & Co., Inc., [1942]
• ©1942

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Tedesco, A. P. (Anthony Philip)
• H. Wolff, Inc.
• Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) NNC

Description

xvi pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 41 pages, 192 pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 31 cm

Subjects

• Lithography, American
• Lithographers
• Currier & Ives

Note

• "This special edition of Currier & Ives is set in 12 pt. Caslon Monotype with hand-drawn decorative initials. The design and typography is by A.P. Tedesco and the book has been produced by Zeese-Wilkinson Company, Inc. and H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company."--Title page verso.

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.

LCCN

42024944

OCLC

• ocm14221758
• 14221758
• SCSB-3513665

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries