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CURRIER & IVES PRINTMAKERS BY: HARRY T. PETERS

CURRIER & IVES PRINTMAKERS BY: HARRY T. PETERS

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FEATURES: CURRIER & IVES PRINTMAKERS   BY: HARRY T. PETERS
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A) CONDITION BOOK: VERY GOOD - HARD BOUND
B) CONDITION DUST JACKET: FAIR - NOT PRICED CLIPPED BRODART
C) FIRST EDITION - LATER PRINTING - DOUBLEDAY DORIAN + CO. 1942
D) NOTE:  THIRTY TWO OF THE PLATES ARE IN COLOUR THE REMAINDER ONE BLACK AND WHITE.  DUST JACKET MISSING A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE SPINE.  OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE ON FIRST FREE END PAPER.  HEAVY BOOK MAY REQUIRE EXTRA POSTAGE.   41 PAGES.  192 PLATES.
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BOOK GRADING CATEGORIES:
FINE
VERY GOOD
GOOD
FAIR
POOR
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About:

"Currier and Ives was a New York City printmaking business that operated between 1835 and 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. Advertising itself as "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints,"[1] the corporate name was changed in 1857 to "Currier and Ives" with the addition of James Merritt Ives.

A perennial bestselling series was the Darktown Comics lithographs.  Nathaniel Currier (1813–88) was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, on March 27, 1813, the second of four children. His parents Nathaniel and Hannah Currier were distant cousins who lived a humble and spartan life. Tragedy struck when Nathaniel was eight years old, when his father unexpectedly died, leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family: six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles, as well as their mother.

Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family and, at fifteen, he started what became a lifelong career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton.[2] In 1833 at age twenty, he moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer.[3] Currier's early lithographs were issued under the name of Stodart & Currier, a result of the partnership that he created in 1834 with a local New York printmaker named Stodart. The two men specialized in "job" printing and made a variety of print products, including music manuscripts. Currier became dissatisfied with the poor economic return of their business venture and ended the partnership in 1835. He set up shop alone, working as "N. Currier, Lithographer" until 1856."

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