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CHARLES MATLACK PRICE (DATES UNKNOWN). POSTERS. Bound volume. 1913. 11x8 inches, 29x21 cm. George W. Bricka, New York.

CHARLES MATLACK PRICE (DATES UNKNOWN) POSTERS. Bound volume. 1913. 11 1/2x8 1/2 inches, 29x21 1/2 cm. George W. Bricka, New York. Condition A-: minor wear at edges. Numbered 69/250 in ink. A period study of posters containing 42 color and 120 mono-tone reproductions of works from around the world. "Charles Matlack Price has sought . . . to produce a work that is not so much an illustrated catalogue of posters as it is an attempt to criticize the poster as a work of advertising art, and especially to lay down the principles upon which successful posters have been and may be constructed. In doing so he has produced a very attractive book and one which incidentally proves a very good illustrated catalogue on account of the large number of reproductions, not only in black and white, but also in a great many cases in the original colors, of posters by various continental and American artists well known and otherwise" (The International Studio volume 45, 1911, p xlix). the first edition, limited to 250 numbered copies. this copy is number 69 / 250.