Families can record five years of Yuletide memories in this album decorated with Victorian ephemera that is divided into such themes as Holiday Greetings, Trimming the Tree, Parties and Festivities, Santa Claus, and more. 25,000 first printing.

Our Victorian Christmas Album: A Keepsake of Holiday Memories

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Grossman, John

Crafts & Hobbies

Studio

Text by Priscilla Dunhill. The Christmas we love today sprang from the festive parlors and bedecked halls of a century ago, where it lives still in the lush pages of Joy to the World. A specially embossed and die-cut jacket wraps the book like a precious gift. Selection of the Literary Guild and the Better Homes &amp; Gardens Family Book Service. 199,000 copies in print.

Joy to the World: A Victorian Christmas

Politics & Social Sciences

Hart, Cynthia

Social Sciences

Workman Publishing Company

Collages of nineteenth century antiques, mementos, Valentines, lace, and jewelry accompanied by poetry and quotes

Forget-Me-Nots: A Victorian Book of Love

Gill, Tracy

Arts & Photography

Workman Pub. Co.

Victoriana and cats-it's a natural marriage. Celebrating the era when mousers, tabbies, and toms were swept off the farm and cherished with a passion unrivaled since ancient Egypt, Parlor Cats is a dazzling collaboration from the creators of A Victorian Scrapbook, Forget-Me-Nots, Joy to the World: A Victorian Book of Love

Parlor Cats: A Victorian Celebration

History & Criticism

Introducing everything you need for an old-fashioned evening of eggnog and cheer. From John Grossman, coauthor of Victoriana gift books with over 600,000 copies in print, musicologist John Brimhall, and Victorian authority Priscilla Dunhill, comes a Christmas set complete with heirloom songbook, six individual booklets, and musical accompaniment on audiocassette. Includes over 30 traditional Christmas carols.

We Wish You a Merry Christmas: A Victorian Caroling Kit

Brimhall, John

Dunhill, Priscilla

Music

To be read aloud before bed or during a quiet moment, this book introduces a literature of delight to the whole family. In the Victorian era, the best poets and literary minds created a special world for children. Today these poems, with their rollicking energy and old-fashioned values, are still brimming with charm, whimsy, and truth. Here are offerings from Amy Lowell, Edward Lear, James Whitcomb Riley, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Louis Stevenson combined with treasures hidden for a century or more in scrapbooks, anthologies, and dusty copies of The Youth's Companion and St. Nicholas Magazine. Poems on the virtues of home and family, the seasons, animals, patriotism-and silly poems that mean nothing at all. Charming full-color pictures of the period decorate each page, and for parents and older readers, there is marginalia on the poem or poet. 30,000 copies in print.

Nonsense & Common Sense: A Children's Book of Victorian Verse

Children's Books

Cigar box labels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were not only amusing and beautiful to admire, they were a testament to the printing process of chromolithography and an important precursor to today's methods of product advertising.
Labeling America: Popular Culture on Cigar Box Labels showcases the unique collection of John Grossman which covers 90 years of cigar box labels and bands printed by four generations of George Schlegel Lithographers. What makes this archive unique is that the Schlegel Company kept meticulous sample albums and files showing an unbroken record of American graphic style evolution. The work of many other lithographers of that era either destroyed or irreversibly dispersed their work.
Now housed at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware, the carefully cataloged Grossman collection gives a glimpse into life at the turn of the century, when over 5 billion cigars were being sold in the United States via boxes with colorful labels depicting everything from women, animals, and sports icons to actors, heroes, and political figures. This book takes these beautifully printed slices of American culture and combines them with the history of chromolithography into an interesting story of America's changing tastes and graphic standards.
For more about this title, please visit labelingamerica.com.

Labeling America: Popular Culture on Cigar Box Labels: The Story of George Schlegel Lithographers, 1849-1971 (Fox Chapel Publishing)

Antiques & Collectibles

Fox Chapel Publishing

This book contains some of the most beautiful and fascinating lithographed images ever printed on cigar box labels.
With topics like transportation, sports figures, women, and more you'll have a glimpse into a bygone era when the cigar box was the king of the advertising industry.
The gorgeous detailed work shown in this book will amaze you.

The Smokin' Book of Cigar Box Art & Designs: More than 100 of the Best Labels from the John & Carolyn Grossman Collection (Fox Chapel Publishing)

This book offers 30 of the most beautiful lithographed images ever printed on cigar box labels. Perforated pages tear out easily and are fit for being matted, framed, and hung as a centerpiece in your home. Each meticulously reproduced poster measures 11" x 14" and can be displayed in either a 14" x 18" or a 16" x 22" matted picture frame, or trimmed to fit an 11" x 14" frame without a mat.

Cigar Box Art Poster Book: 30 Ready-to-Frame Examples from The John and Carolyn Grossman Collection

A collection of die-cut Victorian cards and ornamental envelopes from the John Grossman Collection, featuring excerpts from love letters and romantic verse. Inspired by the very popular advent calendars given at the holidays, the delighted recipient will look forward to opening one card each day over 14 days. Perfect for those who want a more intimate, unique way to express their feelings. Charming full-color images of the Victorian period decorate each page, along with an excerpt or quote and a verse printed on each card. Presented in a decorative hardbound keepsake book that is sumptuously bound with ribbon and adorned with red roses, hearts, and cupids, this book is sure to become a favorite keepsake, a gift to be cherished forever. Capture the romance and splendor of the Victorian era with this very romantic gift. 14 Ways To Say I Love You is perfect for all romantic occasions, including Valentine’s Day, anniversaries, birthdays, bridal showers, even a groom’s gift to his new bride.

14 Ways to Say I Love You

Grossman, Carolyn

Parenting & Relationships

Sellers Publishing

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