Author: Rawls, Walton H.
Title: The Great Book of Currier & Ives' America
Description: New York, Abbeville Press, 1979. Hardcover. Ilustrated dj; grey cloth cover with art imprint. 487 pages : illustrations (mostly color), Extra postage required - 12 lbs. Currier and Ives was a successful American printmaking firm headed by Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824-1895). Based in New York City from 1834?1907, the prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand colored. Lithographic prints could be reproduced quickly and purchased inexpensively, and the firm called itself "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints" and advertised its lithographs as "colored engravings for the people. Contents: Grand Central Depot for cheap and popular prints -- Novus Ordo Seclorum ("A new era is born") -- Proud and passionate city! Mettlesome, mad extravagant city! -- How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood -- Our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence -- Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home -- Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! --- Go forth, under the open sky, and list to nature's teachings -- America is a poem in our eyes: its ample geography dazzles the imagination -- Never was such horseflesh as in those days on Long Island or in the city -- Ev'ry prospect pleases, and only man is vile -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography. VG, slight wear to dj.

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