Antique Advertising Tin Can Art – Tobacco Spice Coffee Biscuit Etc / Scarce Book

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THE TIN CAN BOOK  - The Can as Collectible Art, Advertising Art & High Art
by Hyla M. Clark, New American Library, NY, 1977.
Over 250 tins are pictured and described in this book which will fascinate the tin can collector, the artist, the historian.  Illustrated in color and black-and-white, this rare out-of-print book provides an in-depth pictorial survey of antique tin cans.  “From the tin-plated canisters of the 1800s to the art nouveau designs of the 1920s to the pop art cans of Andy Warhol to the beer craze of the 1970s – [this book] covers over 150 years of the history and art of packaging in tins.”  Covered are coffee and tea tins, cocoa and spice tins, peanut tins, English biscuit tines, vegetable tins, cosmetic and pharmaceutical tins, talcum power tins, tobacco tins, sample tins, story tins, store bins, beer cans, peanut butter pails, and more.
8.25” x 10” softback in very good condition.  128 pages.
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