The Spirit of America - Currier & Ives Prints

[2], 6pp plus 8 tipped in colour prints with captioned tissue-guards.  Light card covers.  4to.  Covers are worn, chipped around edges, scuffed and cracked along backstrip, with visible shelf wear and scarring on verso.  Text block edges a little rubbed and indented.  Internally a hint of yellowing on endpapers and in margins (not affecting prints). Hall provides a fascinating introduction covering the history and methodology used by Currier & Ives to produce their 'ballads in picture' prints, and the impact they had.  The prints portray, generally, Americana - portraiture, history, life on the prairie trail etc.