An exceptional 6 x 8 inches volume containing over 70 unique lithographic designs available for custom printing by the firm, Sheip and Vandegrift of Philadlephia. An exceptionally preserved, unpilfered example with designs in all tastes, with many Cuba-centric designs, a black laborer [slave] with "old scratch" cigars, imperial and patriotic designs, and those evocative of Grecian themes, so popular in the West and South during reconstruction. A rare survivor.
New Labels: Sheip & Vandegrift Printers of Attractive Cigar Labels. Private Labels a Specialty. Philadelphia. c.68pp. Unpaginated.
A good + copy, bound in wraps, lightly shaken, with bright and clean pages.
