Coutumes

1888 · 014203 — Durham N.C.: W. Duke Sons & Co 1888. Soft cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Lithographed by Knapp & Co. New York. <br /> <br /> Original illustrated stapled wrappers. 22 leaves printed on versos only. Profusely illustrated with chromolithograph portraits of prominent late-19th-century stage performers and public figures posed in historic and national costumes. Format: 17 × 26 cm 6.75 × 10.25 inches.<br /> <br /> Wrappers with a 1.5-inch loss at the outer edge of the rear cover light creasing and soiling. Staples rusted. Plates clean bright and well preserved with minor corner creasing. Internally very good.<br /> <br /> <br /> . An uncommon promotional album reproducing the W. Duke & Sons cigarette card series issued to accompany late-Victorian tobacco marketing campaigns. The album reflects the intersection of theatrical celebrity ethnographic costume imagery and mass advertising culture and includes representations of well-known performers such as Sarah Bernhardt in an 'Old Russian Costume.'<br /> <br /> Subjects: Tobacco advertising Costume history Theater and stage performers Late Victorian popular culture Advertising ephemera Illustrated albums Chromolithography Performing arts history. W. Duke, Sons & Co unknown