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engby Colin Simkin Approx 16X12 W/Dust Jacket
Currier and Ives America by Colin Simkin
A panorama oof the mid-nineteenth century scene Eighty choice prints in full color with extended commentary on the prints and the times which they portray
Copyright 1952 this edition published by Bonanza Books Date?
Hard Cover with dust jacket (has some damage)
Measures approx. 16 X 12
I. THE BEGINNINGS in which is described the invention of lithography, the development of the process, its arrival in America and the entry of Nathaniel Currier into the business
II. THE THRIVING in which Ives joins Currier and the partners set about building a staff, going into mass production and getting distribution of "colored engravings for the people"
III. THE FLOURISHING in which the "printmakers to the American Public" satisfy the craving for pictures and fulfill their destiny as recorders of the period during which this country came of age
IV. THE WANING in which, after a half-century of pictorial reporting on the American scene, the famous partners bow out without realizing what an indelible imprint they have left
V. THE REAWAKENING in which Americans begin to recognize and appreciate not only the heritage left them by their ancestors but also the impressions left them by the printmakers who made history as they recorded it
THE PLATES
THE AMERICAN HOMESTEAD
1. AMERICAN HOMESTEAD - SPRING
2. AMERICAN HOMESTEAD- SUMMER
3. AMERICAN HOMESTEAD- AUTUMN
4. AMERICAN HOMESTEAD- WINTER
HOMES ACROSS THE COUNTRY
5. LIFE IN THE COUNTRY- EVENING
6. THE PIONEER'S HOME
7. A HOME ON THE MISSISSIPPI S. THE WESTERN FARMER'S HOME
WESTWARD THE EMPIRE
9. THE GREAT WEST
10. THE ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA
11. YOSEMITE VALLEY- CALIFORNIA
12. THROUGH TO THE PACIFIC
CLEARING AND TILLING
13. AMERICAN FARM YARD - MORNING
14. AMERICAN FARM YARD-EVENING
15. HAYING-TIME - THE FIRST LOAD
16. HAYING-TIME - THE LAST LOAD
WINDS OF TRADE
17. CLIPPER SHIP DREADNOUGHT
18. CLIPPER SHIP "FLYING CLOUD"
19. CLIPPER SHIP "NIGHTINGALE"
20. CLIPPER SHIP "RED JACKET"
STEEL RIBBONS UNWIND
21. THE NIGHT EXPRESS: THE START
22. THE RAILROAD SUSPENSION BRIDGE
23. PRAIRIE FIRES OF THE GREAT WEST
24. AMERICAN RAILROAD SCENE
THE MAIN ARTERY
25. "HIGH WATER" IN THE MISSISSIPPI
26. "LOW WATER" IN THE MISSISSIPPI
27. "ROUNDING A BEND" ON THE MISSISSIPPI
28. "WOODING UP" ON THE MISSISSIPPI
RURAL ENTERPRISE
29. AMERICAN FOREST SCENE - MAPLE SUGARING
30. PREPARING FOR MARKET
31. AUTUMN IN NEW ENGLAND-CIDER MAKING
32. WINTER IN THE COUNTRY-THE OLD GRIST MILL
PROTECTING THE PROPERTY
33. THE LIFE OF A FIREMAN-THE NIGHT ALARM
34. THE LIFE OF A FIREMAN-THE RACE
35. THE LIFE OF A FIREMAN-THE FIRE
36. THE LIFE OF A FIREMAN-THE RUINS
THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN
37. AMERICAN COUNTRY LIFE: MAY MORNING
38. AMERICAN COUNTRY LIFE: SUMMER'S EVENING
39. AMERICAN COUNTRY LIFE: OCTOBER AFTERNOON
40. AMERICAN COUNTRY LIFE: PLEASURES OF WINTER
PLEASURES OF THE CITY
41. CASTLE GARDEN, NEW YORK
42. SPEEDING ON THE AVENUE
43. CENTRAL PARK, THE DRIVE
44. A NIGHT ON THE HUDSON
HUNTING BECOMES A SPORT
45. AMERICAN HUNTING SCENES: "A GOOD CHANCE"
46. LIFE IN THE WOODS: "STARTING OUT"
47. LIFE IN THE WOODS: "RETURNING TO CAMP"
48. WILD DUCK SHOOTING: A GOOD DAY'S SPORT
-AND FISHING, A PLEASURE
49. BROOK TROUT FISHING
50. THE TROUT STREAM
51. CATCHING A TROUT
52. HOME FROM THE BROOK
- AND HORSES RUN FASTER
53. STELLA AND ALICE GREY
54. "TROTTING CRACKS" AT HOME
55. "TROTTING CRACKS" AT THE FORGE
56. "TROTTING CRACKS" ON THE SNOW
WINTER PASTIMES
57. AMERICAN WINTER SPORTS
58. ICEBOAT RACE ON THE HUDSON
59. THE SLEIGH RACE
60. WINTER PASTIME
THE COMPLETE LIFE
61. THE FOUR SEASONS OF LIFE-CHILDHOOD
62. THE FOUR SEASONS OF LIFE-YOUTH
63. THE FOUR SEASONS OF LIFE-MIDDLE AGE
64. THE FOUR SEASONS OF LIFE-OLD AGE
LITERARY LANDMARKS
65. THE HOME OF EVANGELINE
66. THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET
67. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH
68. THE WAYSIDE INN
PRIDE IN HISTORY
69. G. WASHINGTON
70. A. LINCOLN
71. UNITED STATES CAPITOL
72. U. S. MILITARY ACADEMY, WEST POINT
SUNDAY DIVERSION
73. ADAM NAMING THE CREATURES
74. NOAH'S ARK
75. PUZZLE PICTURE-OLD SWISS MILL
76. THE PUZZLED FOX
A LITTLE SENTIMENT
77. SINGLE
78. MARRIED
79. GOD BLESS OUR SCHOOL
80. GOD BLESS OUR HOME
Currier & Ives AMERICA
8o CHOICE PRINTS
IN FULL COLOR
WITH INTRODUCTION AND EXTENDED COMMENTARY ON THE PRINTS AND THE TIMES THEY PORTRAY
THIS is an all-time, All-American book, a champion. A 12- by 16-inch giant, one of the most lavishly color-illustrated volumes ever published, it is an exciting panorama of a vital period in American life.
Currier & Ives were "Printmakers to the American People" from the 1830's to the 1880's when our nation was at its most picturesque. Their thousands of true-to-life prints furnish the only contemporary color record of the American scene, rural and urban, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi to the Pacific.
Mr. Colin Simkin, Currier & Ives collector and scholar, is familiar with every facet of their work. He has designed this book to cover every important aspect of life in America of that period, and he highlights the marvelously accurate prints with an informed commentary.
Many of the prints have never appeared in color in any other book. Some of the prints were never before reproduced in color by anyone. And no other book has ever contained so many large-size Currier & Ives color prints. Furthermore, the prints in this book are as accurate and faithful to the originals as any reproduction can be.
But CURRIER & IVES' AMERICA is more than a great art book, or a collector's prize. It is a book for the old folks and a book for the children, a Treasury of American Tradition for every American family to linger over, to study and to use, for entertainment and for reference.
BONANZA BOOKS
by Colin Simkin
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