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1909 · 53118 — New York: The Carter’s Ink Company 1909. 8vo. 6 6a-6d 7-24 pp. Decorated & illustrated title page in red & black printed throughout in red & black numerous alphabet plates illustrations historiated initials 4 colour lithograph plates. Tan illustrated softcovers Arts & Crafts cover art in red & black minor soiling scuffing minor creasing to lower right corner on a few leaves still VG- copy. First edition of this very scarce and nicely printing instructional sales catalogue for the Carter’s Ink Company touting their line of Mark-a-Line inks for show card and advertising displays. Gage has included a number of font alphabets including wide-pen alphabet Roman capitals lower case alphabets and card layouts. Of particular interest are the colour lithograph plates showing all of the different Carter’s ink colours ink jars pastes and advertising. Founded originally in 1858 in Boston Carter’s Ink Company was producing millions of bottles of inks by the end of the 19th-century and their products included tempera show card colors and managed to survive up until 1975 when it was purchased by the Dennison Company. The Carter’s Ink Company, paperback