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Title: The Bookman : Christmas number
Creator: Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926, artist
Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1895
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of an advertisement for The Bookman 1895 Christmas Number featuring a man standing in front of a bookshelf reading while holding an umbrella between his knees; books and papers are stacked on the floor in the foreground and background; decorative frame made up of holly.
Date supplied by cataloger based on copy held by the New York Public Library. "Louis J. Rhead"--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom left of image. "A literary journal published monthly"--text, left and right of image. "For sale here, - - Price, 15 Cents."--text, top center margin. "Dodd Mead & Company, 149 5th Ave., N.Y."--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 48.26 x 29.69 cm (19 x 11 11/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ART_003192
502570
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5259
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Periodicals
Books--Pictorial works
Hollies--Pictorial works
Men--Pictorial works
Reading--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Book & magazine posters. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Artist Posters
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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