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1920ref. 61659New York: American Publishing & Engraving Co. J.J. Schultz & Co. 184 William St. Bookbinder ca. 1920-1939. Thick folio. 13 x 19 x 3.5 in. 135 leaves numbered reverse in pencil on versos of last half. on linen with 4274 camera-ready clipart samples all w/ inventory numbers rubber stamped below the image sized approx. 2 x 2 in. throughout arranged in montages of 24 28 32 & 40 per page each carefully mounted some crossed out w/ annotation “Killed” and others worn through at the lower right corner of some leaves while just a few have been removed and in once case clipped from the upper fore-edge of the leaf. Contemporary light gray/beige buckram soiled dampstained wear at fore-edges partially shaken rebacked still a VG- exemplar. An extraordinary printing & engraving firm’s factory sample catalogue for over 4000 of their camera-ready clipart advertisements for subscribing businesses following World War II through the Great Depression and the New Deal programs of President Roosevelt. This superlative archive of images traces Art Deco styles spanning nearly two decades advertising campaigns printing styles fonts and with almost not repeated images offered by American Publishing & Engraving Co. AP&E Co. to their extensive client list. In addition these engravings capture the revolutionary changes in American industry and commerce with nearly 50% devoted to the automobile industry including automobile manufacturers and dealerships accessory suppliers automobile repair public safety from bad driving the fast-growing electric motors and battery industries and more. Ford the Dodge Brothers Buick Studebaker Cadillac Plymouth Auburn Chrysler Essex Auburn-Cord DeSoto Hudson Terraplane and many others all are featured here advertising their service departments features speed and more. A significant portion also reveal the very real needs to wash the cars clean engines repaint the lacquer update the automobile tops replace batteries repair radiators and the always pressing need to maintain safety equipment and tires. Interspersed as well are automobile movers commercial body builders for trucks and commercial delivery vehicles with a significant percentage showing cylinder grinding engine rebuilding boiler repair and other very necessary secondary market needs as metal alloys and tolerances were far less durable with breakdowns an ever pressing problem for the motorist. Public safety notices reflecting the impact of the Progressive Era illustrate the dangers of the automobile with many indicating streetcars potentially hitting stalled cars which had not been repaired properly gridlock automobile accidents from ignoring traffic signals and police traffic officers as well as speeders hitting pedestrians or ignoring motorcycle police traps. Early in the sample illustrations are many reflecting the interest in building large Tudor Revival or Arts & Crafts homes installing electric lighting new furniture stylish clothes & shoes beautiful Oriental carpets and jewelry and watches for young flapper-era women. There are also promotional ads for Art & Stained Leaded Glass windows for homes interior decorators a panoply of beauty products many reflecting the Flapper Era hair and dress styles as well as evolution of the Art Deco lettering. As the AP&E Co. continued to add their sample engravings through the Great Depression not only is there a greater emphasis on repairing automobiles shoes recovering furniture and even repairing mattresses reflecting the belt tightening of the 1930’s but there are also increasing influences of more streamlined automobiles introduction of appliances such as refrigerators appearance of beer ads following the repeal of Prohibition and the fast growing radio industry. American Publishing & Engraving Co. based out of New York was one of a myriad of job printer engraving firms who emerged at the end of the 19th Century and initially specialized in publishing local histories and genealogies for historical societies by subscription typically with illustrations. Although this cataloguer could find no specific trade reference either in contemporary magazines or newspapers they appear to have operated out of the same locations as the Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co. with some overlap and by the beginning of the 20th Century had largely dispensed with publishing local histories engraved portraits or vanity press projects. Contemporary court cases and other references indicate that they operated a subscription service for businesses advertising art to be run in magazines newspapers pulps or added to trade literature for matchbook covers business flyers etc. and by 1916-1925 were managed by Thomas W. Smith. No similar factory sample collection or published collection located in Worldcat. American Publishing & Engraving Co., J.J. Schultz & Co., 184 William St., Bookbinder, hardcover
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1924ref. 60304Paris: Ernst Henri 1924. Folio. 2 unnumbered leaves of text. With 40 mounted hand-coloured plates beautifully reproducing the original designs Rococco chinoiserie designs 3 plates w/ old reinforced mounts at upper corners a few w/ old offsetting from the original glue. Preserved in the original quarter-chinoiserie cloth over boards printed illustrated label on front cover front tie loosened from the fore-edge edgewear rubbing still a nice complete set of these plates. First edition thus of this exceptional portfolio reproducing the exquisite and fanciful botanical settings landscapes and allegorical Chinese figures from this extraordinary artist. His chinoiserie engravings exaggerated the wispy and delicate qualities of the style portraying the world as a fairyland fileed with colour and fantasy. His 18th-Century Rococo designs were wildly popular by decorative arts manufacturers and applied to silk textiles porcelain pottery wallpapers and even silver. Pillement 1719-1808 had developed by 1764 a new method of printing on silk with fast colours and that also encouraged the durability and legacy of his designs. The majority of these were engraved by the noted woman artist & engraver Anne Allen a British artist who not only was the second wife to Pillement but created etchings based on his paintings by using the “a la poupee” or multi-colour Intaglio copperplate engraving style of printmaking which breathed life into the intricate scenes. This portfolio reproduces many of her portfolios as well as those executed by Gauthier Dagoty Canot Avril and Robert Cooper. Ernst Henri, hardcover
1970ref. 75828Russia: N.p. C. 1970. Each icon is printed on a different color of silk. Two images in duplicate. Very good condition N.p. unknown
1920ref. 59816Los Angeles CA: MacDonald Collection ca. 1920-1955. Archive of 89 coated labels sized from 2.25 x 3.5 in. up to 6.25 x 8.5 in. with many in the middle ranges including distinctive 5.25 in. rounds most colour lithographs some with metallic inks nearly all retaining the original adhesive from never having been applied to luggage in assorted shapes many round others rectangular square diamond shaped etc. most on thin coated paper stock all NF condition from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald 1892-1977 stepson of famed southern California oil man William F. Byrne as well as oil company and drilling equipment company owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers. A delightful and remarkably colourful small archive of fine lithographed and colour printed luggage labels preserved from over three decades of ocean liner travel by the well-to-do California oil family. Their frequent voyages carried them to Hawaii Asia South Asia Africa Europe and the Americas preserving luggage labels souvenir brochures and more along the way. At the time they were an essential advertising campaign largely driven by the popular Grand Hotels and were often illustrated by such renowned commercial and graphic artists as Dan Sweeney and Mario Borgoni. Included amongst these are iconic labels for the historic Park Hotel depicting jockeys racing on the Shanghai Club race track in front of the iconic Art Deco building completed in 1934; The Cathay & The Metropole in Shanghai operated by Cathay Hotels Ltd.; the historic Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon Hong Kong opened in 1928 and founded by the brothers Ellis & Elly Kadoorie still considered one of the finest hotels east of the Suez; or beautiful scenic labels created for the Eastern & Oriental Hotel the “E&O” still considered one of the finest hotels in Southeast Asia and the Oriental Hotel in Kobe Japan. Also present are labels for the Raffles Hotel in Singapore originally opened in 1887 Mrs. Ch’ien’s Guest House located originally not far from the Legation Quarter in Peking Maidens Hotel Delhi the splendid Clark’s Hotel Benares Varanasi still considered the finest heritage hotel in the city and the Imperial Hotel of New Delhi opened in 1936 designed by F.B. Blomfield. The MacDonald’s visited the Philippines several times often staying the Manila Hotel Hawaii where the Royal Hawaiian and the Kiluaea Volcano House were their places of choice and frequently stated at The Biltmore in Los Angeles after returning from trips the Plaza in Buenos Aires the Waldorf in New York and many of the major European Hotels. Also present are labels for the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo Sri Lanka founded in 1865 featuring the historic south wing designed by Edward Skinner and one of the oldest hotels East of Suez. South Africa was a stopover during their 1952 Great Africa-India Cruise on the RMS Caronia and labels include Polley’s Hotel Pretoria the Imperial Hotel in Pietermaritzburg and the North Western Hotel Livingstone N. Rhodesia. MacDonald Collection, unknown
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1964ref. 54043-k-D1Utrecht: Grafisch Gezelschap "De Luis" 1964. Stiff wrappers with tipped-in colour woodcut kept together with a string ca. 365 x 505 cms. 10 pp. in japanese binding printed in blue red and black calligraphy lithographed by Henk Hester and printed on 'Propatria antiek getint vergé van Gelder Zonen Amsterdam' containing colour head- and tailpieces a portrait and three b/w woodcuts. Limited edition of 120 copies of which No. 61-120 are for sale 1-60 for supporters. Our copy bears No. 46. Minor shelf wear and some toning at the cover but otherwise in good condition. Dutch Artists; Contains woodcuts Grafisch Gezelschap "De Luis" unknown
1867ref. 59209Paris: Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret Rue hautefeuille 12 1867. 12mo. xx 403 1 pp. Contemporary quarter brown-morocco over marbled boards raised bands gilt ruling & lettering on spine wear rubbing edgewear some scuffing occasional foxing still VG- copy w/ former ownership markings of the noted illustrator Henri Stein 1843-1919 whose illustrations graced the El Mosquito a “satirical-burlesque with caricatures” newspaper appearing weekly from 1863 to 1893. Revised & expanded edition of this Roret Manual on lithography by Knecht pupil of Senefelder and substantially rewritten and expanded with Jules Desportes based upon the original 1827 work by Bregeaut. This work explains in detail mechanical lithography chromolithography lithophotography printing and zincography. The small separately issued atlas volume with plates is not present. See: Twyman Lithography pp. 264 267. Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, Rue hautefeuille, 12, hardcover
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1848ref. 59211A la Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret Rue hautefeuille 10 bis.; Rue hautefeuille 12 1848-1850. Two vols. 1st - 12mo. 4 248 pp. Contemporary quarter brown-morocco over marbled boards marbled endpapers raised bands gilt ruling & lettering on spine wear rubbing edgewear some scuffing occasional foxing still VG- copy w/ former ownership markings of the noted illustrator Henri Stein 1843-1919 whose illustrations graced the El Mosquito a “satirical-burlesque with caricatures” newspaper appearing weekly from 1863 to 1893; 2nd - 4to. 4 pp. with 30 double-page engraved plates all mounted on paper stubs at gutter margin. Quarter plum-coloured pebbled publisher’s cloth over marbled boards edgewear rubbing minor bumping to corners ex-lib stamps on a few leaves still VG set. First edition of the first volume and early printing of the companion atlas of this scarce Roret set on decorative lettering geometrical details perspective and ornamental details. The alphabets encompass a variety of printer’s and sign painter’s fonts ornamental and historiated letters cursives Spencerian scripts and more. A la Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, Rue hautefeuille, 10 bis.; Rue hautefeuille 12, hardcover
1910ref. 58183New York: The Century Co. 1910. 8vo. xi 3 477 1 pp. With 100’s of text illustrations type specimens diagrams woodcut engravings 1 in colour historiated vignettes decorated initials. Brown publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine gilt & red morocco spine label t.e.g. minor bumping to corners edgewear some rubbing still a VG copy. Second edition of this classic and surprisingly scarce printer’s manual originally issued in 1904 and the third title in De Vinne’s unexcelled series on typography. This work devoted to mechanical methods of book composition encompasses chapters on equipment composition of books composing & printing mathematics and music books foreign languages such as Greek Hebrew & German stone work and more. De Vinne 1828-1914 was often designated the “Dean of American Printers” founded the Grolier Club collaborated with Robert Hoe to advance fine printing and presses and embraced the concept of the book as objet d’art. The Century Co., hardcover
1926ref. 58182Brooklyn NY Chicago et al: Mergenthaler Linotype Co. 1926-1928. 4to. 528 pp unpaginated. printed in red & black. With red woodcut borders red & black lettering ornamental letters decorative initials Linotype ornaments & border illustrations throughout diagrams. Quarter-red cloth over limp printed covers split-pin binding 3 brass split pins w/ decorative border lettering on back cover soiling scuffing wear slightly shaken minor staining to first few signatures not affecting text still G copy. First edition of this very rare Linotype supplementary type faces including Antique Benedictine Bodoni Caslon Century Cheltenham Cloister De Vinne Elzevir Franklin Garamond Gothic Granjon Narciss Old Style and Scotch. Font samples and assorted sizes are included along with advertising samples newspaper sample pages and even advertising material. No copies located in Worldcat 1 copy of the 1933-1934 located at Temple. Mergenthaler Linotype Co., hardcover
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1878ref. 58315Paris: V.L. Quetin ca. 1878. Oblong 4to. 11.5 x 7.75 in. 1 leaf lithograph title 94 i.e. 110 lithographed plates 1 leaf of index on blue-tinted paper stock. Quarter-green leather over pebbled green cloth raised bands embossed borders in blind gilt lettering on spine minor scuffing & wear rubbing bumping & wear to couple corners w/o ffep. still VG- copy w/ bright plates from the library of Victor Colas 256 13d Voltaires Paris notation on front marbled pastedown. A well-illustrated printer’s specimen book issued to depict the varieties of Second Empire French furniture featuring styles such as Louis XV Louis XVI and the decorative styles of Napoleon III’s designers. Victor Joseph Quetin 1822-1877 was an entrepreneurial printer who began producing these Furniture style books for Parisian craftsmen cabinetmakers and would sell these volumes of specimen sheets to manufacturers to show their prospective clients. The furnishings shown in these leaves encompass tables chairs toilettes some with bidets built in many with attached mirrors bed frames armoires buffets desks and desks with built-in bookcases. The index which is often missing provides an excellent quick reference to the styles types of furnishings as well as the specific plate. Demand increased as Paris & France underwent tremendous renovations and progress during the Second Empire and many of the furnishings inspired by the designs of Carlin Weisweiler and Riesener were presented to the public at the 1867 Exposition Universelle. His son Victor Leon Quetin b. 1852 would later in the 1870’s take up the family business released the albums under a new imprint of “V.L. Quetin” and also began issuing colour chromolithograph specimen catalogues of elaborate draperies bed curtains window treatments and casements. Also issued was a newspaper Journal le magasin de meubles” which offered details of the specimen catalogues he would assemble subscriptions and pricing with details on colour lithography and hand-colouring as well. His designs were dependent upon using a specialized machine which would enlarge reduce or even alter lithographic designs for clients. See: Victor Quetin De la papeterie a la lithographie D’Avoise a Meung-sur-Loire en passan par les Moulins de Paillard 16e-18e siecle; Alfred Lemercier La lithographie francaise de 1796 a 1896 et les arts qui s’y rattachent: manuel pratique p. 344. V.L. Quetin, hardcover
1932ref. 57814Detroit MI: Howard Flint Ink Co. Printing & Lithographic Inks ca. 1932. Oblong 8vo. 8.5 x 5.2 in. 4 pp 106 sample leaves printed on assorted coated & uncoated paper stocks some thick cover stocks 10 leaves notched by former printer/lithographer indicating changed colours some unevenly at corners. Embossed pictorial textured Navy-Blue cloth raised Art Deco illustration & lettering of American Indian in ceremonial headdress knapped flint arrowhead as logo minor rubbing edgewear still G copy. First edition thus of this nicely printed colour ink sample catalogue presenting the wide range of colour inks available for sale from the company. This catalogue graphically advertises the Flint Ink Co. Process Inks with photos of American Indian standing beside Lake Arrowhead Bond Inks Gloss and Halftone Blacks as well as a wide range of magazine and newspaper inks such as Flame Red Poinsettia Red Oriental Crimson Imperial Orange Rembrandt Brown and many others.The firm was founded in 1920 by Flint 1884-1967 formerly a sales manager for Charles Johnson & Co. and began initially by supplying ink to local newspaper and magazine publishers. Flint utilized strict quality control methods to test raw materials and finished inks and by 1926 opened the Indianapolis branch followed by others including New Orleans in 1932 listed here on the title page. After Acquiring Temple Inks Co. of Denver in 1936 and expanding there the company continued to grow through the Great Depression and today is one of the largest ink producers in the World. No copies located in Worldcat. Howard Flint Ink Co., Printing & Lithographic Inks, hardcover
1955ref. 57818Vancouver WA: Pioneer Printing & Stationery Co. ca. 1955. 4to. 60 pp assorted pagination. type specimen samples & layouts throughout printed in blue & black. Colour-illustrated softcovers w/ type faces cover art and company logo of covered wagon w/ oxen minor shelfwear rubbing pencil MS annotations on first leaf still VG copy. First edition of this scarce Pacific Northwest type specimen catalogue featuring machine composition and hand composition typefaces. Machine was primarily confined to such typefaces as Bodoni Century Garamond Gothic Paragon Spartan and a few others. The Hand composition encompassed a much wider range from Balloon to Cloister Black Entravers Text to Pirannesi and even included a Wood Type face section. Pioneer Printing operated on Columbia Street in Vancouver from 1944 until 2008 when the business finally closed. No copies in Worldcat. Pioneer Printing & Stationery Co., paperback
1882ref. 57197London: Macmillan and Co. R.ichard Clay Sons & Taylor Printers 1882. 4to. 48 pp. Colour frontisp. colour-illustrated title colour-printed and illustrated throughout. Quarter-brown cloth over colour-illustrated boards cover art by Cruikshank dustsoiling edgewear minor scuffing & wear to corners slightly shaken still good copy w/ very bright interior. First edition of this satirical and humorous series of vignettes surrounding the Suffolk Harvest Festival featuring dancing eating libations and pursuit of the fetching Judie Twitchett as reminiscences told to a group of young children. Macmillan and Co., [R.[ichard] Clay, Sons & Taylor, Printers], hardcover
1906ref. 56226Colorado Springs CO: Colorado Springs Typographical Union No. 82 The Prompt Printery 1906. 4to. 10 x 12.5 in. Approx. 120 pp unpaginated. colour-tinted decorated borders on most text and advertising leaves numerous colour plates numerous tipped-in colour plates & photochromes tipped-in colour printing samples and photo printing samples most still preserving original printed tissue guards. Contemporary limp burgundy calf covers marbled endpapers preserving the original embossed & decorated front softcovers raised lettering & chromolithograph illust. of the I.T.U. Union Printer’s sanatorium in Colorado Springs slightly shaken minor rubbing some edgewear still a VG copy. First edition thus of this lavishly produced souvenir for the International Typographical Union convention which originally formed in 1852 and who George Childs and Anthony Drexel founded their Union Printers Home for the “Aged and Sanatorium for Tuberculosis” in 1889. Henry Warnack details the circumstances and facilities of the Union Printers Home as well as the wards orderlies nurses doctors treatment and rehabilitation regimen of the Tuberculosis Sanatorium -- principal cause of death among union members at the time. Also included is a well-illustrated article by James Lynch detailing the efforts of the Typographical Union and Typesetters to secure an eight hour work day and the struggle against printers and owners to secure these rights. Colour plates show the observatory on Pike’s Peak The Grand Canyon Royal Gorge & Hanging Bridge by Jackson Seltzer’s bucking Broncho and Hart Purdy’s Cow Girl. Worldcat locates 2 copies Colorado College Univ. of Colorado Denver. [Colorado Springs Typographical Union, No. 82, The Prompt Printery], paperback
1936ref. 56351Kansas City MO: Western Typesetting Co. 1936. Two vols. 1st. - 4to. 220 pp. Title and section titles printed in colour on thick cover stock typefaces throughout. Black pictorial cloth Western motif cowboy riding typeface on front cover silver Art Deco lettering slight shelfwear; 2nd - 8vo. 81 1 pp. Typeface alphabets throughout self-printed black & silver softcovers minor shelfwear inserted into front pocket of Specimen book NF set. First editions of both these excellent volumes on American type faces produced by the noted company during the 1930s. Western offered Linotype Monotype Ludlow and Hand-set types reproduction proofs long wearing unconditionally guaranteed types and other advantages towards their clients. The type specimens included hear encompass Scripts Gothics Spartans Bodoni Moderns extensive special figures and more. The Type Identifier lists over 400 different faces from ATF Baltimore Bauer Continental Intertype Monotype Ludlow and other sources. Western Typesetting Co., paperback
1957ref. 56526Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office 1957. 4to. xxii 201 1 pp. Printing layout diagrams throughout. Black pebbled cloth gilt lettering & lozenge illust. of printing press on front cover red comb binding as issued minor dustsoiling edgewear still VG copy. Second edition revised & expanded of this work designed to meet production problems of the US Government Printing Office composed of a signature size chart and series of face-up impositions. It does note that not every possible folding imposition is contained but those dummies can be inserted or laid-in to this work as necessary. United States Government Printing Office, hardcover
1910ref. 74539Valence-sur-Rhone: Imprimerie d'Art Jules Ceas & Fils ca. 1910. First edition. Oblong folio 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. 8 including title pp. of text plus 34 full page illustrations each with its tissue guard. Publisher's string-tied wrappers with gilt cover lettering and inset color illustration. Some guards with fold or small tears. An excellent copy.A wonderfully vivid catalog of the printing capabilities of this venerable French printing house. Jules Ceas & Fils seem to have specialized in art books and finely printed matter including advertisements. The text speaks of their great mastery of trichromatic printing and various other advances in the art. In the main the book is a demonstration of their abilities. The first 14 full page illustrations are trichromatic color and the remaining 20 are full page monochromatic illustrations. Many of the color illustrations are for French firms and a number of fairly famous artists were used such as G. Camps M. de Juilly L. Ageron and others. No copies located by OCLC. Imprimerie d'Art Jules Ceas & Fils unknown
