The Fairest Flower: A Collector's Guide to Frank Desch By Norman Platnick | |
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Enchantment Ink is pleased to introduce the 15th volume in our series of full-color guides to American illustrators, The Fairest Flower: A Collector's Guide to Frank Desch, by Norm Platnick. Ten years in the making, this new volume brings together everything known about Frank H. Desch's printed works, including full-color images of all his known calendars and prints, along with the magazine items (covers, illustrations, and ads), book illustrations, fans, sheet music, jigsaw puzzles, postcards, menus, tradecards, leaflets, needlecases, packets, blotters, boxes, posters, store displays, and die-cuts featuring his work. Sections cover the yardlongs, print series, company calendars, and both titled and untitled print/calendar images. The volume includes more than 375 images on 82 8.5x11 inch, velo-bound pages, including a detailed index/size & price guide.
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A note from William Platnick
Hello Enchantment Ink visitor. On April 8th, 2020, the author of all these books, my father, Norman Platnick, died of complications due to a serious fall. Words cannot describe the amount of pain my family is in right now. My father was a wonderful, humble, loving, passionate and intelligent man. He had 3 passions in life: my mother, spiders and collecting. As a way of honoring my father's legacy in the illustrated artwork community, I will be turning as many books of his as possible into PDF files and distributing them online, for free. If you have found these collector's guides useful, I ask that you make a donation to the Norman I. Platnick Memorial Fund, which will be setting up a scholarship in the field of arachnology, my father's career. If you'd like to learn more about my father and his amazing life (such as skipping middle school and high school and going to college when he was 12), I'd like to lift up just a few pieces: NY Times: Norman Platnick ObituaryConcord University Magazine Fall 2018: Friendly Neighbordhood Arachnologist page 20 NY Times: The Exciting Adventures of Spider Man Daily News: NYC'S real-life spider man NY Times: For Some, an Appliance; for Others, Art The Wall Street Journal: Warming Up to Spiders
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