Gold Glass Letters (1910) — Hardcover Reprint

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This book is printed one copy at a time when you order it. There is no warehouse shelf of these — your copy goes on the press after you check out. Hardcover binding takes longer than paperback. Please allow 3–4 weeks from order to delivery.

About this book

The gold-leaf glass letter was the crown jewel of the 1910 storefront — and this Chicago Glass Novelty Company catalog is the trade's 1910 source for them. Gold Glass Letters shows the embossed and gilded glass letters, tablets, and signs the company supplied to sign painters, glaziers, and merchants: the raised gold letters for office doors, transoms, and windows that announced a business in permanent, gleaming style.

For the modern gold-leaf artist and reverse-glass painter, the catalog is a reference for period styles and proportions — the letterforms, sizes, and treatments that were actually manufactured and sold in 1910. For the restoration craftsman it documents what belonged on a period storefront; for the collector, it is a vivid piece of the American sign industry. The plates record the sizes, styles, and finishes as they were actually sold — the working specifications a 1910 sign painter ordered from, not an artist's fantasy.

Gold on glass was the most prestigious work in the sign trade, and this catalog shows the commercial side of the art — the manufactured letters that put gilded glass within every merchant's reach.

For glass gilders, reverse-glass artists, sign painters, restoration craftsmen, and collectors of trade catalogs and advertising ephemera. The 1910 catalog of gold glass letters.

Details: 6×9" hardcover (case laminate), black and white interior, cream paper.

?? Please read before ordering — about print quality

This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document. The pages were scanned from an original 1910 printing, and the print quality of your book reflects the condition of that original scan.

What that means in plain terms: you may see faded text, uneven inking, age spots, show-through from the back of pages, and other imperfections that were in the 1910 original or introduced by the scanning process. These are preserved as-is — they are not printing defects, and they are not something we can fix.

We are not responsible for the condition of the original source material. If you want a pristine modern typeset book, this isn't it. If you want the actual 1910 book with all its character intact, you're in the right place.

Printed on demand by IngramSpark. One copy at a time — no inventory, no waste.