REED, Ethel
(b. 1876, Newburyport, d. 1912, London)

Book cover

1896
Lithograph
Gallica, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

The picture shows the cover of The Quest of the Golden Girl by Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947). The lithograph appeared in Les maîtres de l'affiche (The Masters of Poster), a famous collection of contemporary French and international posters of the years 1890-1900, published in a little smaller size for subscribers from December 1895 to November 1900 by Jules Chéret, co-working with the printer Chaix. Every month, four posters were printed, altogether 256.

Ethel Reed's lithograph was published in Les maîtres de l'affiche, Volume 3, Plate 128.