?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
ETHEL REED (1876-1912) IS POLITE SOCIETY POLITE / AND OTHER ESSAYS BY MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE. 1895. 17 1/2x25 inches, 44 1/2x63 1/2 cm. Lamson, Wolffe, & Co., Boston. Condition B+: restored loss in lower left corner; repaired tears at edges, some affecting image creases and restoration in margins and image. Hinged to mat at top edge. Paper. Matted and framed. 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.
