With good wishes for a merry Christmas & a happy New Year [graphic] : [Christmas card].
Accession number:
PML 143403
Published:
London : The Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Company Ltd., [1953]
Description:
1 card : lithograph, col. ; 213 x 162 mm (422 x 362 mm sheet folded three times)
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Title from front of card.
Card is a single sheet folded three times to form to front flaps opening to reveal an illustrated interior; sheet is blank on verso; printed in red, blue, yellow, and black.
"Designed & Lithographed by Barnett Freedman for the Directors & Members of the Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Company Ltd. [at foot] Curwen Press"--Back of card.
Provenance:
Inscribed on verso of left flap: Barnett Freedman to Thomas Balston; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Card features an illustration by Freedman of a procession of children singing and playing musical instruments, flanked by stacks of books on the verso of the cards front flaps, with a scroll for the signature of the sender on the left and the date "Christmas 1953" at right.
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