Description
Octavo, 7pp [text], [2 blank], [2 color plates], [1], 240pp illustrated plates, [2]. Gray cloth, title in gilt on spine, title with decorative gilt illustrations on front panel. Previous owners name on front end paper, dated 1897. All 240 illustrated plates are printed on different types of paper and intended to demonstrate different printing techniques and cardstock. On publishers colophon, Earhart notes that this work was printed with inks made by the Ault & Wiborg Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. The press work was done by “Colt’s Armory,” the “most reliable platen press ever built.” (Yale Lib Gazette, 134) An exceptionally beautiful book.
Comments: Art Historian Robert Herbert notes that “among books which are themselves exemplars of unusually beautiful printing, Earhart stands out. The Harmonizer has extraordinary platen press work of varied design, based upon twelve pure inks, and twenty-four more derived from mixtures of the initial group.”
