JENNY, ADELE.

Early American Trade Cards from the Collection of Bella C. Landauer.

New York William Edwin Rudge 1927 Quarto. 25pp., + 44pp. plates. One of 50 copies specially bound, and containing a two-page frontispiece featuring a color reproduction of a trade card for a Philadelphia dealer in whale products, illustrated with a dramatic whaling scene. With numerous reproductions of trade cards in black and white, ranging from c. 1730 to 1877. Includes cards for Paul Revere and Son's Bell and Cannon Foundry, engraved by Revere himself. One card for a New York bookseller features an illustration of a voracious reader buried in books designed and etched by George Cruikshank, which is described as "a genial, Dickensian achievement." Jenny notes that taken as a whole, trade cards "become a discourse on the history of industry and mechanics, art and architecture, of modes of living, of styles of dress, of manners and mannerisms-- in short, on the trend of civilization." Corners and spine slightly rubbed, and spine shows some light soiling, else about fine in vellum-backed paper-covered boards printed with a yellow and green floral design. Gilt-titled on the spine. (Ephemera Reference).

• USD 950.00 > Andere Währungen
• Bestellnummer: 21558

• Antiquariat: Bromer Booksellers Inc. (USA)