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Alphabets Plain Ornamented and Illuminated: A Selection from the Best Ancient and Modern Styles, Particularly Adapted for the Use of Painters, Engravers, Marbleworkers and Illuminators
by L. Prang & Co
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston: L. Prang & Co., ca. 1870. First thus. Hardcover. Very good. First edition, presumed published in the late 1860s, this is a possible later issue with reference to the Vienna Worlds Fair in the publishers ads. Small oblong quarto, 7 x 10.75 inches, bound in pebbled cloth with beveled boards, decorative gilt stamped title. 18 leaves consisted of a title page, preface, 15 leaves of alphabets, and publishers notice at rear. Title pages and three alphabets printed with blue and red accents and gilt ornamentation. A Very Good copy with mild intermittent foxing, sunning and rubbing to boards.
This is the first book of alphabets published by Prang. "A hand-book of this description has long been needed by Painters, Engravers, Marble Workers, and others, the existing works of this nature being cumbersome and expensive We do not offer any designs claiming originality, but have simply endeavored to compile from the standard English, German, and American works, the most valued specimens..." (preface) Unlike later Prang alphabets which featured the company's signature ornate chromolithography and scripts, this is largely a practical reference printed in a subdued style reflective of the earlier date and of Prangs eagerness to reach any and all markets for his trade. Very scarce in commerce.
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- Bookseller
- Haec City / Also Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Q1115
- Title
- Alphabets Plain Ornamented and Illuminated: A Selection from the Best Ancient and Modern Styles, Particularly Adapted for the Use of Painters, Engravers, Marbleworkers and Illuminators
- Author
- L. Prang & Co
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First thus
- Publisher
- L. Prang & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- ca. 1870
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- BIBLIO-LIVE-3, hand lettering, alphabets, specimen books, graphic arts, printing, lithography, drawing, illuminating, manuscripts
- Bookseller catalogs
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Fine Arts
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Quarto
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- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Fair
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- Title Page
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