The Model E

Title: The Model E

Author: Smith, Thomas R.

Publication: Newton, Iowa: Tamazunchale Press, 1984.

Description: Miniature book about the Maytag Model E washing machine, which was designed by the author/publisher in the 1930s. No. 57 of 250 copies. Signed by Thomas R. Smith, the author/publisher. Printed and bound at Tabula Rasa Press from 8 point Cloister Old Style type. Illustrated with four full-page black-and-white photographs of the Model E washing machine. Bound in full red calfskin with gilt lettering and marbled endpapers by Faith Harrison. 2.5 x 2 inches; 86, [10] pages, [4] pages of plates (first leaf and last four leaves blank). A clean, crisp, and collectible copy. Fine. With a poem by Frank D. Lindsay who worked as Maytag's Manager of Product Evaluation Marketing. Tamazunchale Press, established in Iowa by miniature book collector Charlotte Smith and her husband Tom, published 20 miniature books between 1983 and 1988.