Description: Vintage Currier & Ives: Printmakers to the American People by Harry T. Peters. - Currier and Ives was a New York City-based printmaking business operating from 1835 to 1907. Founded by Nathaniel Currier, the company designed and sold inexpensive hand-painted lithographic works based on news events, views of popular culture and Americana. This special edition, large format book contains a history of the prints as well as 192 full color plates from "the definitive collection of Currier and Ives" owned by Harry T. Peters of Long Island, New York. He started collecting the Currier and Ives prints when he was an office boy in New York City and "since that time, has assiduously pursued the prints wherever they might be found, in any part of the world." - Special edition published in 1942 by Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., Garden City and New York - Extensive illustrations throughout - Good condition. Cover has some general surface wear. Inscription of original owner in front. Some general yellowing to pages. Otherwise pages are clean and binding is tight.
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Harry T. Peters
Publisher: Doubleday
Topic: American (US)
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Americana
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1942
