PETERS, Harry T.

America on Stone.

Item #33086

PETERS, Harry T. America on Stone. The Other Printmakers to the American People. A Chronicle of American Lithography other than that of Currier & Ives, from its beginning, shortly before 1820, to the years when the commercial single-stone hand-colored lithograph disappeared from the American Scene. A Prologue being a survey of the field as a whole, Followed by The Alphabetical List of the Artists, Lithographers, Publishers and Craftsmen who built up America on Stone in lithographs, being a collector's notes on their lives, times and activities, gathering together as much as possible of their stories from all sources. [N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1931]. 1st ed. Profusely illus., many plates in color. 415pp. Very good in orig. cloth. Limited to 751 copies printed on Aurelian white laid antique paper.

Price: $350.00