The Rhine Prints" -- Illustrated Catalogue of Color Prints for Homes and Schools

New York, New York: Atkinson Mentzer & Grover, Publishers, 1910. Very good. Light spotting.. A scarce illustrated catalogue of color art prints published for homes and schools, marketed as a modern color alternative to outdated Victorian prints. The New York-based publisher markets the prints as superior due to modern German printing techniques. They argue that "While these sepia productions of famous paintings have served a good purpose in displacing the chromos formerly found upon the walls, their exclusive use has made many of our rooms depressingly sober, if not actually gloomy. The result of all this is a natural reaction and a demand for decorative wall pictures in color ... The Germans have developed color printing to a point not approached by any other country, as if evidenced by these beautiful Rhine Prints" (p.[1]). Includes testimonials from happy customers, including a school superintendent and Walter Crane. Also includes a price list in the rear with title, artist, size in inches, price, and number. There are eight leaves of color reproductions of the prints for sale. Single vol. (7" by 8.75"), pp. [20], illus., in original brown wrps printed in red-orange and navy blue. Provides an important window into material history, showing what kinds of prints were sold to be hung on walls of homes and schools in 1910. Also interesting to see how these were marketed as replacing "outdated" forms of printing such as Victorian chromolithography.