Picturesque America book cover with gold embossed lettering – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Picturesque America book cover with gold embossed lettering in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Picturesque America book cover with gold embossed lettering
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The gold embossed lettering sets this cover apart from the engravings inside the book it fronts. Picturesque America was a multivolume survey published in the early 1870s, assembled from landscape views and written descriptions of the country's rivers, mountains, towns and coastlines. Its cover was meant to signal a luxury product, since gilt-stamped cloth and raised lettering were favored by publishers of illustrated volumes for parlor display. Look closely at the tooling and you can see how the designers pulled the eye toward the title before a reader ever opened the pages.
| Original scan | 605 × 862 px |
|---|---|
| Reference | 0A Picturesque America Cover |
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