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An Illustrated Check List by Frederic A. Conningham

NEW, UPDATED EDITION with a new foreword by Robert L. Searjeant

The most complete catalog of Currier & Ives prints ever assembled, this popular guide lists the almost 7,000 known prints, along with precise title, description, date of publication when known, and exact size. This detailed information allows the reader to identify nearly all Currier & Ives prints and to distinguish between those with the same or similar titles.

In addition to a new foreword surveying recent market trends, Currier & Ives expert Robert L. Searjeant has provided a number of new aids for the collector. "Currier & Ives: Quality Guidelines for Collectors" discusses such topics as print condition and care of prints, margin width (95 percent of all prints have been shaved or trimmed), mounting (an original should never be wet or dry mounted), stains and tears, how to tell an original from a reproduc-tion, and upgrading your collection. "Currier & Ives: An Essay in Color" emphasizes the importance of color in the prints, the vast majority of which were colored by hand. "Chronology of the Firm" supplies addresses with dates for Currier & Ives throughout its history, so you can estimate the dates of undated prints. Mr. Searjeant has also updated and emended many entries in the text, where new information has become available.

Other features include "Suggestions for Collectors" by Colin Simkin, which covers the often overlooked subject of trade cards, and "The Best Fifty," both large and small folios, listing those prints esteemed the most desirable. Reproduced are illustrations of 89 of the rarest and most precious prints.

The late Frederic A. Conningham was a leading authority on Currier & Ives prints. Robert L. Searjeant has been an avid collector of Currier & Ives prints for more than thirty years.

Cover photograph of A Home on the Mississippi by Kurt P. Dreas, Pittsford (Rochester), New York. Print from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Searjeant.

Cover design by Leonard Henderson