Constructive Cover Designing:

A Book of Seventy-six Original Designs

Reproduced in Color on Sunburst Cover Paper

introduction by Frank Randolph Southard 

First edition.  Holyoke, MA:  Hampden Glazed Paper and Card Co., 1923 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Half leatherbound covers with caramel paper boards have leather label with gilt title and ornament. 
• Boards show bumps, staining, scuffing, warping, edgewear.  Corners are worn, frayed, with exposed board.  See photos.
• Spine strip is missing; ends are frayed.  See photos.  
• Binding is secure. 
• Card weight end papers/ pastedowns show some rippling at head inside front cover; interior feps show some offset shadowing from title page.  
• Illustrations are bright and clear, each plate is a full sheet of cover stock in various colors.  
• Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear.  Inside text pages have illustration shadows on facing page, a line crosses pg. 24.  See photos. 
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have gilt along head, somewhat worn.  See photos. 
• PS2025.0508

24 pages plus 76 plates. 10.5 x 13.5 inches

Folio-sized volume of cover designs printed on Sunburst Cover Paper, produced by the Hampden Glazed Paper and Card Company of Holyoke, Massachusetts.  This portfolio was produced from a contest for cover designs, mostly by commercial designers and illustrators.  Descriptions of the plates include the names of the illustrators and their firms, number of inks used, and the prize winners.  Half-leather bound with paper boards, gilt at head edge.  Exterior condition is AS IS Good+ with the spine strip absent, staining and warping of the upper board.  Interior is Very Good with slight warping to the head of first few plates.  

The introduction by Frank Randolph Southard (1886-1958), American graphic artist and teacher of design, is followed by judging considerations of the contest and technical specifications of the plates.  Seventy-six color entry plates on various colors of card stock, some embossed, follow.

The clarity of the plates and the condition of the paper, one hundred years later, are testament to the qualilty of stock produced by Hampden Glazed Paper and Card Co.

Please see photos. More photos available upon request.

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