THE POSTER: AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY CHRONICLE

Small 4to., ½ black Morocco over marbled paper covered boards with original wrappers preserved within: slight wear to covers. Spines with gilt decoration and brown labels with gilt lettering. Marbled ep. Front pastedown with bookplate of Gus Bofa, famous French art critic and artist who also was a poster designer; fabric markers. Original subscription order form laid in. Monthly periodical bound as 2 vols. starting with first issue of June 1898 and extending through December of 1900; lacking August 1899. The leading and most important English chronicle of the development and importance of posters during the turn-of-the-20th-century profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Most of the great Art Nouveau poster artists are represented including Mucha, Cheret, Crane, the Beggarstaffs, Beardsley, Grasset, Bradley, Hardy, etc. Nearly complete collection rarely found.