Achievement

New York: Carey Printing Company, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio. 138 (8)pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Title page with vignette and decorative orange border, as are all text pages. Decorative and historiated head- and endpieces, and initials. An in-depth promotion, describing the Carey Publishing House starting with its ideals, followed by the various production settings, e.g. Composing Room, Machine Shop, Bindery Floor, etc. with realistic two-page color illustrations. Includes chapters on ink making, engraving, electrotyping, etc. followed by extraordinary offset reproductions of company products like art gravure printing, two-color printing, three-color printing, four-color printing. Many of the samples here are reproduced courtesy of Vogue, Century Co., Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazar, Grolier society, Haas Brothers, and others. Advertisement for the Carey Type Book with type used in the Composing Room of the Carey Printing company at rear. Binding with minor wear along edges, starting at second to last leaf with small tear on last printed leaf. Binding and interior in overall very good condition.