Soapine, French Laundry Soap & Welcome Soap Set of 30 Advertising Trade Cards

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Stetson

$1,650 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

Providence, Rhode Island: Kendall Manufacturing Co. / Curtis Davis & Co., 1880. Ca 1880. A collection of 30 trade cards featuring 17 different designs by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, who developed them as a young student along with her cousin Robert Brown. These trade are author's first published work, though she dismissed them in her autobiography as merely an amusing source of income. Chromolithographed cards roughly

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