Oct 11, 2012 - Sale 2289

Sale 2289 - Lot 113

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(DESIGN--GRAPHIC.) Briggs, Ernest L.; and Victor H.; editors and publishers. Twentieth Century Cover Designs. Photographic plates and numerous color specimen sheets of magazine and book covers with lettered tissue guards. Large 4to, publisher's cloth over boards with design by E. B. Bird, worn; contents slightly shaken, a few leaves loose; hinges cracked, book reviews mounted to rear pastedown; laid in are a prospectus and a Typed Letter Signed by Ernest Briggs thanking W. G. Bowdoin for his review of the book in the New York Times. Plymouth, Mass., 1902

Additional Details

first edition of this scarce and fascinating study of the growing field of graphic art and design for artistic book and magazine covers. Contains instructive essays and designs by such prominent illustrators as Maxfield Parrish, G. S. Benson Jr., Samuel Busha, Ernest Seton-Thompson, Hollister Bros., F. Louis Mora, and others.