Lithographed Paper Toys, Books, and Video games: 1880-1915

Gathering vintage paper lithographed toys is an thrilling and visually rewarding interest. These vividly printed toys remind us of a time passed by when video games, blocks, toys, dollhouses, puzzles, and books had been designed by a technique known as chromolithography–a course of that’s as near creative perfection as a nineteenth-century portray. Crammed with over 500 full colour images, this e book supplies a captivating and informative glimpse into the late Victorian period of toy making. Organized by kind of merchandise, every chapter consists of helpful information in regards to the historical past, manufacturing, and typical illustrations discovered on the toys and books, whereas values, measurements, dates, and sport items are all offered within the captions. As well as, readers will discover a invaluable itemizing of essentially the most outstanding American and European producers of the time, together with McLoughlin Bros., Milton Bradley, Bliss, W. & S. B. Ives, Raphael Tuck, E.P. Dutton, and extra. By no means earlier than has one e book offered such a colourful information to paper litho toy amassing, so take a step again in time to when toy making was a uncommon artwork!