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Letterpress Wood Block Sculpture
Located in East Hampton, NY
Antique letterpress printers wood block sculpture.
Category
Early 20th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Wood
Letterpress Print of Charles Baudelaire by Manet, C. 1862
By Édouard Manet
Located in Ross, CA
Original letterpress print of 1862 Manet etching of Charles Baudelaire by French artist Édouard
Category
1860s French French Provincial Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
Original Wood Carved SHOW Majorette Letterpress Triangle Poster Company
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Large hand carved circus or carnival SHOW letterpress with wonderful and graphic carved majorette
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Antique Letterpress
Materials
Wood
Original cover for Alphonse Mucha's Le Pater, Symbolist letterpress, 1899
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
of Mysticism (2019)
Original letterpress cover for Alphonse Mucha’s masterpiece of mysticism, Le
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper, Ink
H 15.19 in W 10.94 in D 0.2 in
Animal Locomotion: Plate 472 (Child Climbing Up Staircase)
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Inscribed with Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date
Stamped on
Category
1880s Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photogravure
Animal Locomotion: Plate 475 (Child Climbing onto Chair)
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Inscribed with Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date
Stamped on
Category
1880s Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photogravure
Animal Locomotion: Plate 682 (Stag Running)
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Inscribed with Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date
Stamped on
Category
1880s Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photogravure
Animal Locomotion: Plate 672 (Ox Walking)
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Inscribed with Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date
Stamped on
Category
1880s Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photogravure
Animal Locomotion: Plate 471 (Child Crawling)
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Inscribed with Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date
Stamped on
Category
1880s Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photogravure
Animal Locomotion: Plate 161 (Man Leaping), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's 'Science and Art
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 730 (Tiger Walking), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date, stamped with Museum of Edinburgh 'Science and Art
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 682 (Stag Running), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date, stamped with Museum of Edinburgh 'Science and Art
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: 671 (Ox Walking), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's 'Science and Art
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 162 (Man Leaping Forwards), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White
Animal Locomotion: Plate 92 (Nude Woman Ascending Staircase), 1887 - Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date, stamped with Museum of Edinburgh 'Science
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 158 (Man Performing a High Jump), 1887 - Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date, stamped with Museum of Edinburgh 'Science
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 89 (Nude Man Ascending Staircase), 1887 - Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date, stamped with Museum of Edinburgh 'Science
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 672 (Ox Walking), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh 'Science and Art
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 773 (Ostrich Running), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh 'Science
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 749 (Baboon Climbing), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh 'Science
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 11 (Nude Man Striding), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Antique 37.5 in. Steel Rolling Turtle Printer's Table
Located in New York, NY
casters were made by Darnell Caster. This type of table was used in letterpress printing to transport lead
Category
Early 20th Century American Industrial Antique Letterpress
Materials
Steel
Antique Map of the Extension of the Russian Empire in the XIXth Century, 1806
Located in Langweer, NL
Russian Empire at the beginning of the XIXth century. Several letterpress notations are present on the map
Category
Early 1800s Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
H 20.08 in W 26.78 in D 0 in
18th Century Inn License in a Gilt Frame
Located in Queens, NY
Original 1790 NY state inn license letterpressed in a faux gilt and lacquer frame.
Category
19th Century American Country Antique Letterpress
A Polish Metal Printing Block for a Printing Press
Located in New York, NY
printed text and enhancing the visual structure.
This printer's block was part of a letterpress printing
Category
19th Century Polish Antique Letterpress
Materials
Metal, Lead
The Necessary Qualifications of a Man of Fashion by D. T. Egerton - Illustrated
Located in Middletown, NY
with engraved descriptive letterpress at foot, tissue guards, light scattered spotting, contemporary
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Letterpress
Materials
Leather, Paint, Paper
H 9.85 in W 13.59 in D 0.4 in
The Draped Figure, Seated
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
the letterpress lower left: "T. Way. Imp London"
The stone erased in 1904
The majority of the lifetime
Category
1890s American Impressionist Antique Letterpress
Materials
Lithograph
Paul Gavarni (1804-1866) Portrait of a young man, signed drawing
By Paul Gavarni
Located in Paris, FR
characteristics, foibles and vices of the various classes of French society. The letterpress explanations attached
Category
1840s Romantic Antique Letterpress
Materials
Carbon Pencil
SHELLEY/COOKE Presumption Or The Fate of Frankenstein. 1833 AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
LAST PERFORMANCE BY COOKE AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL EDINBURGH FOR 1833. Printed letterpress playbill
Category
1830s British Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
H 11.19 in W 7.63 in D 0.01 in
Vision Antique
By Paul Berthon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
included no advertising and no letterpress. They were meant to stand alone as significant works of art in
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Antique Letterpress
Materials
Lithograph
The Draped Figure, Seated
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
the letterpress lower left: "T. Way. Imp London"
The stone erased in 1904
The majority of the lifetime
Category
1890s American Impressionist Antique Letterpress
Materials
Lithograph
1825 Buchon Map of Puerto Rico & Virgin Islands with Detailed Colonial History
Located in Langweer, NL
this map apart is the surrounding letterpress text in French. The descriptions cover the geography
Category
1820s Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
H 21.07 in W 31.11 in D 0 in
1827 Polar Bear, Mammal, Oudart, Large Hand Coloured Stone Lithograph, Rare
Located in Norwich, GB
accompanying letterpress for the series was produced, though the title 'Collection d'Animaux' appears in the
Category
1820s French Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
H 10.83 in W 14.57 in D 0.04 in
Ostrich, Oudart, Large Hand Coloured Stone Lithograph, Rare
Located in Norwich, GB
, 1827.
Because the work was never formally completed no title-page nor accompanying letterpress for
Category
1820s French Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
A Parallel of Antient Architecture with Modern by John EVELYN
Located in Middletown, NY
; woodcut initials. Engraved t.p. precedes letterpress t.p. with portrait of Monsieur de Noyers, in
Category
Mid-17th Century English Antique Letterpress
Materials
Gold Leaf
Regnier, Bettanier, Morlon, French Color Lithographs With Period Gold Leaf Frame
Located in Prato, Tuscany
were then transferred to the Frères Becquet letterpress-lithography in Rue des Noyers in Paris for
Category
Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Letterpress
Materials
Wood, Paper
H 14.18 in W 11.03 in D 1.19 in
Ayres, Philip, Emblems of Love, 1750, in a Fine Full Leather Binding
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
engraved title page signed 'S Nicholls sculp:' replacing the letterpress one, and introductory sonnet
Category
1750s British Antique Letterpress
Materials
Leather
Der Hirte (The Shepherd) — original hand-coloring
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
, unframed.
With letterpress typeset in the bottom margin, verso, as published, 'Richard Seewald / Der Hirte
Category
1910s Expressionist Antique Letterpress
Materials
Woodcut
Antique Aquatint of The Distribution of Wine on the Morning of St.Louis, c.1822
Located in Langweer, NL
publisher/ artist's address "London, W. Sams (...) 1822" below image. - With the accompanying letterpress
Category
1820s Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
H 9.85 in W 12.8 in D 0 in
La Pointe de Bretteville
By Paul Berthon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nouveau posters, Berthon's panneaux decoratifs included no advertising and no letterpress. They were meant
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Antique Letterpress
Materials
Lithograph
The Bluestocking’s Husband
By Honoré Daumier
Located in New York, NY
, sur blanc (without the letterpress verso and on a quality wove paper); Daumier Register 669, second
Category
1840s Realist Antique Letterpress
Materials
Lithograph
Schloss Kammer Lake Attersee II by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
by Klimt and struck below the image using a technique similar to letterpress. The signet corresponded
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
H 18 in W 18.5 in D 0.1 in
Fruit Trees by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime landscape collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
image using a technique similar to letterpress. The signet corresponded to a matching signet in the
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
Gustav KlimtFruit Trees by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime landscape collotype, 1908-1912, 1908-1914
H 18 in W 18.5 in D 0.1 in
Farm Garden Sunflowers by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
image using a technique similar to letterpress. The signet corresponded to a matching signet in the
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
H 18 in W 18.5 in D 0.1 in
Malcesine on Lake Garda by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk landscape collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
technique similar to letterpress. The signet corresponded to a matching signet in the justification page
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
H 18 in W 18.5 in D 0.1 in
Church in Cassone by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
similar to letterpress. The signet corresponded to a matching signet in the justification page which
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
H 18 in W 18.5 in D 0.1 in
Thunderstorm (The Large Poplar II) by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime collotype
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
image using a technique similar to letterpress. The signet corresponded to a matching signet in the
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
H 18 in W 18.5 in D 0.1 in
Farmhouse in Buchberg by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
image using a technique similar to letterpress. The signet corresponded to a matching signet in the
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
Gustav KlimtFarmhouse in Buchberg by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime collotype, 1908-1912, 1908-1914
H 18 in W 18.5 in D 0.1 in
The Swamp by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime landscape collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
similar to letterpress. The signet corresponded to a matching signet in the justification page which
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
H 18 in W 18.5 in D 0.1 in
Saved from Drowning
By Honoré Daumier
Located in New York, NY
letterpress verso in Le Charivari; Daumier Register 1029, second state (of 3); in very good condition, 10 x
Category
1840s Realist Antique Letterpress
Materials
Lithograph
Monsieur - Here's Your Handkerchief
By Honoré Daumier
Located in New York, NY
paper (from the small collector’s edition, without the letterpress verso as the print was issued in the
Category
1840s Realist Antique Letterpress
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of Lady in Red and Black by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
signet, which was designed by Klimt and struck below the image using a technique similar to letterpress
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
H 18 in W 18.5 in D 0.1 in
Death and Life by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
signet, which was designed by Klimt and struck below the image using a technique similar to letterpress
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
H 18 in W 18.5 in D 0.1 in
Paul Gavarni (1804-1866) The Puppeteer, "Janvier", original signed drawing
By Paul Gavarni
Located in Paris, FR
letterpress explanations attached to his drawings were short, but were forcible and humorous, if sometimes
Category
1860s Romantic Antique Letterpress
Materials
Ink
1813 The Plays of William Shakespeare
By William Shakespeare
Located in Bath, GB
.
Illustrated with five plates, four folding letterpresses, and one further folding plate. Collated, complete
Category
1810s British Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
Quiz. The Grand Master -Illustrated Book by Thomas Rowlandson - 1816
By Thomas Rowlandson
Located in Roma, IT
". He also wrote the letterpress for various illustrated books, and was a general hack.
Category
1810s Modern Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
H 5.91 in W 11.03 in D 0.79 in
Seminal guide to the East and West Indies, with 42 coloured maps and plates
By Jan Huygen van Linschoten
Located in ZWIJNDRECHT, NL
). With 3 title pages (2 from the same full-page engraving and 1 letterpress with an engraving of a ship
Category
Early 17th Century Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
H 12.6 in W 8.27 in D 1.58 in
The English Dance of Death - The Dance of Life by Thomas Rowlandson - 1810s
By Thomas Rowlandson
Located in Roma, IT
". He also wrote the letterpress for various illustrated books, and was a general hack.
Category
1810s Modern Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
H 8.27 in W 5.12 in D 1.58 in
La fortune fait oublier les amis
By Honoré Daumier
Located in New York, NY
letterpress verso (sur blanc), in generally good condition, paper toned toward edges. 9 x 9 inches
A very
Category
1830s Realist Antique Letterpress
Materials
Lithograph
Fashion Plates (a collection of 12)
By Paul Gavarni
Located in New York, NY
in Le Charivari, with the letterpress verso. [Some are signed in the plate, the address of the
Category
1840s Antique Letterpress
Materials
Lithograph
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Find many varieties of an authentic antique letterpress available at 1stDibs. An antique letterpress — often made from wood, metal and iron — can elevate any home. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer antique letterpress, there are earlier versions available from the 19th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. Each antique letterpress bearing Industrial or Victorian hallmarks is very popular. A well-made antique letterpress has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Alphonse Mucha are consistently popular.
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