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Industrial and Applied Art Books
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Eight art instruction books entitled Industrial and Applied Art Books, published by Atkinson Mentzer & Company, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Dallas, [ca. 1920]. All are "Edited by Elmer E. Bush and Florence Reid Bush". The books are numbered 1st through 8th, and average 48 pages in length. All are primarily illustrated, with some accompanying text for the exercises and activities. Most illustrations are black and white, with a few in color. Each volume is bound in a purple and black decorated paper cover. The 5th, 7th, and 8th volumes are marked "Mabel Spofford" in ms., in ink, at the head of the front cover.
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Brown's Famous Pictures ; Brown's Famous Bible Pictures
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Three price lists: one (and its duplicate) for art reproductions by the George P. Brown & Co., Beverly, Massachusetts, ca. 1924. They are entitled Brown's Famous Pictures for February, March and April and Brown's Famous Bible Pictures. The former was issued as a double-sided single sheet; the latter as a 6-page price list. All three items were laid in a Brown & Co. Catalog, HEH RB #603406. The two single-sheet price lists are illustrated with a single row of images across each side of the leaf. Below the title and images reproduction cards are listed for sale and grouped by categories, for example: Washington Pictures, Dickens Pictures, Lincoln Picture; Thanksgiving and Christmas Pictures. Brown's Famous Bible Pictures is illustrated with a single image on the first page. This publisher's price list also groups images by category: 'The Life of Christ'; 'Old Testament Pictures'; 'Christmas Pictures'; 'Easter Pictures'; 'Madonnas'; 'Miniature Bible Pictures'. An ink stamp indicated a price change. "May 1924" is written in ms., in pencil, on the first page of this list.
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Art reproductions
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One set (incomplete) of art reproductions from Mentzer Bush & Co., Chicago and New York, published ca. 1925, which includes 5 cards representing 3 different paintings: "The Primitive Sculptor" by Couse; "Don Carlos on Horseback" by Velasquez, and "Galahad the Deliverer" by Abbey. There are two copies of the Couse painting; one copy of "Don Carlos", and two copies of the painting by Abbey. Each of these cards is printed in color, and contains the painting's title, artist, and collection or museum where the original resides, publisher's name and series title ("Great Masterpieces, Juniors"). The size of the cards varies; dimensions given are for the largest cards only. Title supplied by cataloger.
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Fourty-four envelopes containing promotional and advertising material of the Perry Pictures Company, 1899-1936
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Fourty-four envelopes containing promotional and advertising material of the Perry Pictures Company, published between 1899 and 1936. Materials include: catalogs, publisher's advertisements, advertising flyers, mailing envelopes, order forms, price lists, and 14 art reproductions. The 14 black and white art reproductions are small and include artists: Reynolds, Millet, Bonhuer, Van Dyck, and others. Title supplied by cataloger.
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Art in Dress with Notes on Home Decoration
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One instructional book entitled Art in Dress with Notes on Home Decoration, second edition, by Lydia Bolmar and Kathleen McNutt, published by Manual Arts Press, Peoria, Illinois, copyright 1917. This 46-page book is "in fact, a textbook on art as applied to dress and home decoration . . . intended for the use of students in domestic art courses." (Introduction, p. 3) The chapters address such issues as basic principles of design and arrangement, dress and its relation to the wearer, color, and home decoration. The book is illustrated with black and white line drawings, and features three fold-out plates intended for practice of the principles outlined in the book. The title on the front cover is framed with a decorative border; the inside of the front cover and both sides of the back cover are blank. Pages 43-46 contain publisher's advertisements for books on related subjects. "Mabel Spofford" is written in ms. at the top of the front cover, as well as below the title on the title page. An embossed stamp of the letter "S" is on the upper right-hand corner of the title page. Laid in is the February 1916 issue (single sheet, double sided) of The Applied Arts Bulletin.
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Two publisher's advertisements for a book entitled An Introduction to Art Education by William G. Whitford
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Two publisher's advertisements for a book entitled An Introduction to Art Education by William G. Whitford, published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1929. The smaller of the two is a postcard-size advertisement, printed on both sides of the sheet. This piece contains an abstract of the book, and a listing of the contents and an order form on the other side. The book is advertised for $2.25. The second publisher's advertisement is 2 typescript pages (single-sided), on "Appleton Book Chat" letterhead. These two sheets contain a quotation/reprint of a book review of the same book from a December 1929 issue of Teacher's Chronicle, as well as several endorsement quotations from various art teachers. Title supplied by cataloger.
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