A handsome trade catalog of printing and lithographic inks, including samples of half-tone, semi-transparent, opaque, two-shade sepia, book, poster, soft, medium and heavy body inks printed over the same image of a cowboy on bucking bronco. The typography is impressive as each sample is printed on the type of paper.....
An unrecorded and splendidly illustrated trade catalog advertising sealing waxes for letters, packages, and bottles (champagne, etc.); sulfur wicks and powders for sterilizing wine barrels; and inks. The chromolithographic plates were produced by master printer Charles Verneau, the Parisian publisher of many famous posters, including most of the oeuvre.....
A rare and impressive locomotive trade catalog illustrated with original photographs of engines and parts, providing comprehensive and detailed photographic documentation of locomotive construction. The photographs were taken by the firm of noted New York City photographer George Rockwood. Included here are portraits of the Lake Shore & Michigan Railroad.....
An unrecorded specimen book of twenty-two delightful labels for patent medicines and other commodities, printed by this Chicago label printing firm. Merchants Publishing Co. manufactured druggists’ stationary and produced a diverse high-grade line of labels, pill and powder boxes, folding boxes, prescription blanks, and containers. As noted on the front.....