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[PRINTING -- FURNITURE SPECIMEN CATALOGUE]. QUETIN, V[ictor] L[eon Michel]Biblio.com

Le magasin de meubles No. 2. Album complet & reference de tous les meubles qui se fabriquent a Paris. Contenant environ 300 modeles dessines en perspective.

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

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[PRINTING -- ENGRAVING FACTORY SAMPLE CATALOGUE]. [SMITH, Thomas W (Manager).]Biblio.com

Massive printer’s sample catalogue filled with 4274 pieces of advertising subscription clipart from the American Publishing & Engraving Co. offering a vast trove of promotional sales illustrations stretching from the Roaring 20’s into the Great Depression. The noted job printer & engraving company while focusing on the automobile industry which represent nearly half of the clipart ads also offered advertisements for radio & electronics shops battery & tire companies fashion beauty products home furnishings paint & varnish awning companies and so much more.

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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[Printing for the Blind] [Bible - Psalms]Biblio.com

The Book Of Psalms Translated Out Of The Original Tongues & with the former translations diligently compared & revised

1867ref. 711New York: American Bible Society 1867. 3/4 cloth. Very Good . 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches. Folio. 1 872 974 leaves. Printed in raised letters for the blind. Tears to upper margin of front endpapers and edges lightly soiled. Bound in contemporary 3/4 black leather and black cloth which is worn at edges. A scarce early American edition of its kind. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries several decades before the widespread adoption of Braille printers and educators in France and Britain began developing a variety of tactile reading systems for the visually impaired making independent reading among the blind possible for the first time in history. The results of an important competition at the Royal Society of Arts in Edinburgh in 1832 inspired the American activist Samuel Gridley Howe to research and develop his own embossed reading system for the blind which emerged in 1835 as "Boston Line Type." Drawing upon the methods of James Gall an entrant in the Edinburgh competition Howe created an alphabet of angular raised roman letters that "was said to be far less bulky and therefore less expensive than contemporary European roman-letter systems" PRINTING HISTORY p. 20. With the aid of a $1000 grant from the American Bible Society Howe purchased the first printing press for the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind today the Perkins School for the Blind and produced the country's first complete raised-letter Bible for the American Bible Society in 1842. The present Book of Psalms appears to have been printed with the first complete Howe-ABS Bible retaining the pagination of that production and was published separately with a new title page. ABS had published Selections of Psalms in 1835 and the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind a Psalms and Hymns in 1840 and 1848 this is a very early edition of the Psalms. A rare work. Elizabeth M. Harris IN TOUCH: PRINTING AND WRITING FOR THE BLIND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Smithsonian 1981. Elizabeth M. Harris "Inventing Printing for the Blind" PRINTING HISTORY Vol. VIII No. 2 American Printing History Association 1986 pp. 15-25. "The First Books Embossed in the U.S. for Blind Readers 1833-1880" compiled by the Callahan Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind. Bible Resource Center "Translation through Multimedia American Bible Society unknown

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[PRINTING & TYPOGRAPHY -- PACIFIC NORTHWEST]. [SNEDDON, John Raymond "Ray"].Biblio.com

Type styles available at Portland Linotyping Company typographers. . . Linotype Monotype Hand Type Ludlow.

1960ref. 64757Portland OR: Portland Linotyping Company 512 NW 17th Ave. ca. 1960. Oblong folio. 14.25 x 10.25 in. iv 2 206 i.e. 250 pp added supplement pages in assorted sections. printed throughout w/ peach-coloured border at lower fore-edge type specimens included throughout with each section divided by thick cardstock divider and thumb tab. Original publisher’s blue buckram 16-ring binder gilt lettering stamped on front cover & spine slight shelfwear NF copy from the library of David Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. First edition of this exceedingly scarce and massive type font specimen book issued by the Portland Linotyping Company who specialized in commercial trade typesetting for many local Pacific Northwest regional newspapers magazines and job printers. This particular type specimen catalogue was intended to be expanded as per the additional 34 supplement pages and note on colophon specifying “New type faces are being constantly added to our library and when they become available new insert sheets will be printed and distributed to the holders of our specimen books.” Their Linotype Composition faces encompassed Baskerville to Condensed Gothic Garamond to Oldstyle Antique as well as Spartan Book and Times Roman; Monotype Composition included Bodoni Copperplate Gothic Garamond Modern Rockwell Antique and 20th-Century Medium; while the Handset Display typefaces ranged from Aurora Condensed to Bulmer Italic Craw Modern to a series of Gothics as well as Optima Italic P.T. Barnum and more. Through the 1960’s under Ray Sneddon 1926-2017 the company would evolve into Phototypesetting and further into film and computer-based advertising typefaces for PNW designers and ad agencies. Sneddon was recruited out of Canada and in 1958 he became printer owner/operator of Portland Linotyping Company where he remained overseeing the operation until his retirement in 1989. No copies in Worldcat. Portland Linotyping Company, 512 NW 17th Ave., hardcover

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