Dec 17, 2014 - Sale 2371

Sale 2371 - Lot 253

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
ETHEL REED (1876-?) IS POLITE SOCIETY POLITE / AND OTHER ESSAYS BY / MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE. 1895.
17 1/2x25 1/4 inches, 44 1/2x64 cm. Lamson, Wolffe, & Co., Boston.
Condition A-: minor tears and light water staining in right margin. Paper.
William Clemens wrote in The Poster, March, 1896, "No production by Miss Ethel Reed has been praised more highly than [this poster] . . . this is a purely decorative piece of work, but well drawn and very effective. It is lithographed on imported handmade paper, red in color, and printed in olive, green and black. It is truly a work of art" (p. 37). Kiehl 240, DFP-I 422, Reims 1286, American Posters no. 85, The American Poster p. 25, Salmagundi p. 25.