1596-1891, German, Poster, chart, other edition: Miscellaneous early samples of printing and ephemeral job-printing curiosities [graphic].

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Physical Description
  • ca. 340 items on 9 sheets ; 69 x 49 cm.
Published
  • 1596-1891.
Language
  • German

Edition details

Title
  • Miscellaneous early samples of printing and ephemeral job-printing curiosities [graphic].
Other Creators
  • Pierer'schen Hofbuchdruckerei (Firm).
  • Deutsche Arbeitsfront (former owner.)
  • Graphic Design Collection (Library of Congress)
Published
  • 1596-1891.
Physical Description
  • ca. 340 items on 9 sheets ; 69 x 49 cm.
Subjects
Summary
  • Examples of printing include handbills with advertisements, 1814-1850; group of 172 handbills and handed out on the streets of Berlin in 1891 advertising restaurants, stores, entertainment and other activities. Also includes examples of booklets, certificates, letterhead and special printing, 1840-70. Includes examples of printing including title pages from books printed by the Pierer'schen Hofbuchdruckerei in Altenburg, Germany between 1840-1870. Also includes group of 172 handbills and advertisments collected from the streets of Berlin, ca. 1880-1905, examples of Russian printing, novelty printing and examples of early printing and facsimiles of early printing from 1596-1800. Includes materials from Austria-Hungary; Napoleon; popular verses; Russian advertising matter and unusual printing including silk marriage-bands and actual flowers from Holy Sepulchre on memento card.
Contents
  • (from handwritten captions): Alte Drucksachen der Piererschen Hofbuchdruckerei in Altenburg 1840-1870
  • Plaktate aus den 1850er Jahren
  • Den "Jugend" Philatelisten gewidmet für das Jahr 1896
  • Diverses
  • Reklamedrucksachen aus den Strassen in Berlin (1891)
  • Raritäten
  • Russland
  • [Examples of early printing from 15th &​ 16th centuries]
  • Napoleons Lebenschiksale in Bildern (1815). Kampflied gegen den modernen Unglauben (1787). Flugblätter über den Sturz Napoleons (Berlin 1814). Benennung der Monate in der Landessprachen der ehemaligen österr. Monarchie, 1852.
Notes
  • Early printing examples include pages from a 17th century prayer book and pages by Geneva printers from 1596 and 1692. Also inclues facsimile of indulgence originally printed in the 1500's. Also includes reproductions of early engravings of portraits of early printers Gutenberg, Joannes Faustus, Laurentius Costerius, A. Manucius and J. Frobenius.
  • Title devised by Library staff.
  • Assembled as part of a German study collection on the history and applications of printing.
  • Items mounted on sheets 19" x 27". Many items wanting.
  • Transfer 1947.
  • Handwritten captions in German on each sheet. Materials printed in German with some items printed in Russian.
  • Confiscated from the Arbeitsfront, Berlin by U.S. military intelligence authorities, 1945-1946.
  • Forms part of: Graphic Design Collection (Library of Congress).
Cited In
  • Guide to the Special Collections of Prints &​ Photographs in the Library of Congress /​ compiled by Paul Vanderbilt. Washington, D.C. : 1955,
Terms of Use
  • Rights status of individual images not evaluated. For general information see: "Copyright and Other Restrictions ...,"
Language
  • German
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