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The Poster Magazine, No. 5, May 1896, American Art Nouveau Poster Artists
Regular price
$200.00
Clemens, William Montgomery. The Poster, vol. 1, no. 5. New York, NY: Wm. M. Clemens, May 1896. First edition, first printing. 8vo (6 x 9 inches), pages [12], original decorated wrappers in canary yellow and black. Wrappers soiled at edges, some scuffs and 100-year old fingerprints, pamphlet stitch missing, otherwise very good.
First Issue, Posters, Poster Collecting, Graphic Design, Printing, American Art Nouveau
Welcome to the poster craze of the 1890s! Will M. Clemens’ The Poster is regarded as one of the earliest American publications about pictorial advertising posters and poster collecting. It is a valuable reference for the art historian or serious collector.
The cover of this fifth issue features a reproduction of an art nouveau poster design for the magazine by the Boston illustrator Elisha Brown Bird in two colors (there’s an ad for him on the inside cover).
Other artists mentioned include an article about Jules Chéret, Louis Rhead, Will H. Bradley, C.W. Lemon, J.C. Leyendecker, Elihu Vedder, Frank X. Leyendecker, Aubrey Beardsley, a bio on Will Carqueville, Ethel Reed, and more.
