New York : a series of wood engravings in colour and a note on colour printing by Rudolph Ruzicka / with prose impressions of the city by Walter Pritchard Eaton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eaton, Walter Prichard, 1878-1957.

Contributor:

Ruzicka, Rudolph, 1883-1978, illustrator.

Grolier Club.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Penn Provenance:

Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-1975 (bookplate) (donor) (inscription)

Ruzicka, Rudolph, 1883-1978 (autograph, 1921)

Physical Description:

xxi, 120 pages, 1 leaf : including color illustrations, color plates ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Grolier Club, 1915.

Contents:

A note on colour printing.

A new answer to ancient riddle.

Among the skyscrapers.

The bridges.

The old town.

The squares.

Fifth avenue.

Broadway.

Riverside drive.

Knowledge and the house-tops.

The end of the island.

Notes:

"The committee on publications of the Grolier club certifies that of this book two hundred and fifty copies were printed from type and original wood blocks on French hand-made paper, and three copies with progressive proofs on Japanese vellum. The ten full-page illustrations were printed by Emil Fequet, Paris."

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Rare copy has inscription to Zigrosser from Ruzicka. Also an ms. letter to Zigrosser from Ruzicka laid in. In addition another copy of pages 17-20 laid in.

Other Format:

Online version: Eaton, Walter Prichard, 1878-1957. New York.

OCLC:

1843379