America on stone; the other printmakers to the American people; a chronicle of American lithography other than that of Currier & Ives, from its beginning, shortly before 1820, to the years when the commercial single-stone hand-colored lithograph disappeared from the American scene. A prologue, being a survey of the field as a whole, followed by the alphabetical list of the artists, lithographers, publishers and craftsmen who built up America on stone in lithographs, being a collector's notes on their lives, times and activities, gathering together as much as possible of their stories from all sources; illustrated with 18 colored and 136 black and white plates, together with numerous other illustrations showing examples of the work of more than 100 different craftsmen from every part of America. [By] Harry T. Peters.

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Creator:: Peters, Harry Twyford, 1881–1948
Title(s):: America on stone; the other printmakers to the American people; a chronicle of American lithography other than that of Currier & Ives, from its beginning, shortly before 1820, to the years when the commercial single-stone hand-colored lithograph disappeared from the American scene. A prologue, being a survey of the field as a whole, followed by the alphabetical list of the artists, lithographers, publishers and craftsmen who built up America on stone in lithographs, being a collector's notes on their lives, times and activities, gathering together as much as possible of their stories from all sources; illustrated with 18 colored and 136 black and white plates, together with numerous other illustrations showing examples of the work of more than 100 different craftsmen from every part of America. [By] Harry T. Peters.
Published/Created:: [Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran and company, inc., c1931]
Physical Description:: 415, [3] p., [159] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), facsims, ports ; 32 cm.
Holdings:: Reference Library
NE2303 .P47 (LC)+ Oversize
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Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/906641
Classification:: Books
Notes:: BEIN Zc10 +931pe: No. 318. From the library of Dr. Franz R. Stenzel and Mrs. Kathryn M. Stenzel.
Added t.-p. illustrated in colors.
"This book here first printed in an edition of 751 copies of which 676 are for sale."
"Checklist of books, pamphlets, and articles": p. 413-415.
Subject Terms:: Lithographers -- United States.
Lithography -- United States.
Stenzel, Franz -- Ownership.
Stenzel, Kathryn M. (Kathryn Mathison) -- Ownership.
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