EDWARD PENFIELD POSTER CALENDAR 1897. Deluxe edition. 9 pages. 1896.

Each page approximately 14x10 1/8 inches. R. H. Russell & Sons, New York.
Condition varies, generally A-: minor foxing on cover; minor chipping and creasing at corners; original (?) string through grommets at top. Paper. Signed and numbered 13 3/250, by R. H. Russell.
"Perhaps an example of the very best of Mr. Penfield's earlier work. Excellent in composition, color, line and simplicity of action, it seems strongly imbued with the influence of Steinlen... [but has] a place of its own among American posters." (Price p. 161) Of the cover Price writes that the image is "saliently sincere" and is delighted to announce that its artistic merits warrant that it "could be hung beside Steinlen's Lait pur Sterilise." This poster calendar was issued in two editions, one in which the pages were printed on both sides and this deluxe edition of 250, hand-signed by R. H. Russell, containing 4 full color images (each with a 3 month calendar) and a separate black and red proof. Kiehl 191, DFP I 373, Virginia p. 81.