Lithographic stone used to print the covers of Edward Willett. Davy Crockett’s Boy Hunter, no. 11; and John F. Cowan. The Mountain Demon, no. 16.

Lithographic stone used to print the covers of Edward Willett. Davy Crockett’s Boy Hunter, no. 11; and John F. Cowan. The Mountain Demon, no. 16.

Cincinnati:

The Arthur Westbrook Company,

1908.

Gift of Terry Belanger.

In earlier editions, these dime novel covers were printed in relief color, but the publishers who produced them turned to chromolithography by the end of the 19th century. Here is the stone used to print the black outlines of the title and the outlines and tones in the illustration. The completed covers include four to five separate colors, each of which would have been printed with a separate stone.

From the collection of Rare Book School