[Pictorial Broadside Printed on Cotton]: Sunday Lessons No. 6. Dedicated to the American Sunday School Union

Verlag: Boston Chemical Printing Company, Boston, 1840

Beschreibung

First edition. Printed in black on plain weave cotton. Measuring approximately 12½" x 12¼". Edges unhemmed (as issued?). Illustrated with three engraved or woodcut vignettes, including an image of an open Bible, a scene from a "Children's Church," and three kneeling children praying to rays of light emanating from a dark sky. Three columns of text, separated by decorative rules, consist of The Ten Commandments, The Lord's Prayer, and biblical verses, pertaining to children. Small scattered spots of brown staining on lower portion of handkerchief, creased where once folded, with light wear and very slight fraying on unhemmed edges in blank margins only, else a very good example of an early American printed textile, seldom encountered in the marketplace. Very scarce. *OCLC* locates a single example [American Antiquarian Society]. Not in Collins, *Threads of History: American Recorded on Cloth 1775 to the Present*, which does feature seven other examples of printed broadsides (or handkerchiefs) by this publisher, including "Sunday Lessons, No. 1," and two examples from the very similar "Primary Lessons" series (examples of which are housed at The Smithsonian Institution and the Chester County Historical Society). According to the American Antiquarian Society, "The Boston Chemical Printing Company was active primarily during the 1830s, and issued many similar cloth printings at that time.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 517931

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [Pictorial Broadside Printed on Cotton]: ...

Verlag: Boston Chemical Printing Company, Boston

Erscheinungsdatum: 1840

Einband: Unbound

Zustand: Near Fine

Auflage: 1. Auflage