1880's SHEIP & VANDERGRIFT. Scarce Cigar Box and Band Printing Sample Book. Rare! Congregational No publisher information

No publisher information

Valley of the Shenandoah

I have had my share perhaps of success

When she was twelve

1880's SHEIP & VANDERGRIFT. Scarce Cigar Box and Band Printing Sample Book. Rare! Congregational No publisher informationAn exceptional 6 x 8 inches volume containing over 70 unique lithographic designs available for custom printing by the firm, Sheip and Vandegrift of Philadlephia. An exceptionally preserved, unpilfered example with designs in all tastes, with many Cuba centric designs, a black laborer [slave] with "old scratch" cigars, imperial and patriotic designs, and those evocative of Grecian themes, so popular in the West and South during reconstruction. A rare