Author: GREETING CARDS
Title: Chromolithograph Greeting Cards and One Book
Description: 18. [GREETING CARDS]. CHROMOLITHOGRAPH GREETING CARDS AND ONE BOOK. A lot of 46 beautifully designed and printed chromolithograph cards, undated (circa 1880-1890), almost all trimmed with silk fringe, and one book with elaborate chromolithograph covers, also trimmed with silk fringe. The cards are for several occasions: Christmas (13), Easter (25), sympathy (3), Valentine's day (2) and birthday (3). Almost half of the cards list the publisher's name: Marcus Ward (15), L. Prange (4), S. Hildesheimer (2), and R. Tuck (1), but the others do not. The book is O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE, by George Eliot, and other favorite poems (Boston: D. Lothrop and Co. 1884) bound in beautiful chromolithographed flexible covers illustrated with flowers, printed in deep shades of purple and gold, and trimmed with white fringe. .

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