Book. 4to - over 9¾. VG overall. Blue cloth boards have soilage, some mild sunning to spine; Interior clean and fine. Traces the beginning of marine painting through the nineteenth century, with 15 color plate illustrations, 95 black and white plates; most art from MacPherson Collection. View More...
No. 105 of 125 numbered copies with three extra illustrations in color. 4to. (11 by 9 inches.) xiv, [2], 182, 8 pp. Preceded Chatteron's "Old Sea Painting", and the two make for a highly pleasurable survey of maritime art. In this work Chatterton, in a easy conversational style, discusses not just the art itself, but necessarily the larger maritime history and printing history. Paper is hand-made high quality rag. Gilt decorated cloth. TEG. Moderate wear. View More...
Limited edition of 250, of which this is No. 42. Large 4to, 12 by 8.5 inches. With 16 entrancing tipped-in color plates, along with many other woodcut illustrations of windmills, castles, churchyards, harbors, ruins, etc. This is an updated edition of Cox's important treatise from 1813. Full vellum has considerable wear of surface, as typical of type of vellum. A few chips to the decorative endpapers. heavy toning to a few prelim leaves. Otherwise clean and bright. View More...
1/250 limited edition. vii + 110 pp. + 101 full page plates depicting trademen's cards, which were rococo works of art. Also offering a glimpse into 18th century society, with professions and trades now obscure to us. A most unusual, pleasurable and enlightening study by a leading British expert on the decorative arts during the early 20th century. View More...
Folio. xiii + 148 pp., and numerous plates, many in color, of Crane's wondrous oeuvre. This includes not just book and children's book illustration for which he is very much still celebrated, but also wallpaper design, other decorative arts designs, and traditional graphic arts such as paintings. Without a doubt the greatest study of Crane's work to this day, and also the best anthology of his work in a single volume. Front hinge broken. Considerable amount of soilage to blue decorated cloth boards and spine. Fraying of threads along joints. Rear joint has minor starting at top. Still... View More...
Book. Elephant Folio - over 15. Elephantine Folio, 18 x 12.5", 2ff, 22 engraved plates with letterpress, including engraved title and dedication. Early 19th century half calf with marbled paper over boards, minimal wear, spine tooled in gilt; soiling on title page, tiny tears to two edges of title, final plate lightly foxed in margins and light mark on engraving. Generally plates very clean. Very impressive plates telling story of St. Bruno. Engravings of paintings commissioned by King. St. Bruno was patron saint and founder of the Carthusians, an order of monks established in 1084,... View More...
No. 12 of 20. With a folio of three original ink drawings signed by Vertes, a folio of 10 engravings that were rejected for use in the book proper, and a suite of all the engravings used in the book. This copy is also inscribed by the artist to the collector/owner, which is not something called for in the limitation. 204 pp. Stylistically, the Hungarian-American Vertes brought a loose, near-abstraction sensibility to what nonetheless remained lucidly representational art. He executed his images with a spare economy while keeping his lines fluid and flowing. At times his output could loo... View More...
4to. xii, 241 pp. Revised and enlarged edition. With sixteen color plates and numerous black and white plates. A deservedly standard work on 19th Century book design and printing. Both a splendid book production itself and a go-to source for information on book production. Scholarly yet entertaining, and it can be profitably read through or plumbed now and then for small bits. View More...
A perfect copy of an equine classic! Oblong. 27 by 34 cm. 280 pp. George Morris, not to be confused with living top hunter/jumper trainer, was a leading equine and animal artist/illustrator of the mid-20th century, and this book is one of the most pleasurable horse books ever produced. Somehow the book conveys the relaxed, comforting atmosphere of a blue grass horse farm of yesteryear. In other words, the book captures the tug horses and equine sport exert on so many of us yet is not always requited in today's horse world. While there are elements of the book production itself that migh... View More...
8vo - over 7¾. xvi, 319 pp. First important work considering life and output of Bertel Thorwaldsen (also spelled Thorwaldsen and seen other ways as well). In his day Thorwaldsen was considered the greatest living sculptor, often compared favorably with Michelangelo. Today he is probably best known for the Lion of Lucerne, for which he drew up the plans but did not actually execute the carving of. Yet in some ways this was an atypical work of a sculptor whose style was in the neo-classical mode and who concentrated mostly on human figures, often presented as gods in the vein of ancient Rome... View More...
Book. 4to - over 9¾. 92 pp., 36 color plates. Reprint of 1908 classic on English sporting prints, with all the masters represented here (Alken, Pollard, Rowlandson, Wootton, Stubbs, etc.). Book has sunning on upper sliver and lower sliver of boards, otherwise, fine condition. DJ has price neatly slashed off, and two small chips. Two tears in upper part of rear, each about 1". Still a very viable DJ. View More...
8vo, 222 pp. Original wraps bound in full morocco binding. Humorous anecdotes and one liners illustrated with Szyk line drawings, from the time when Szyk was residing in Paris. A beautiful binding, with just one minor abrasion on front. Pages are age toned, and edges of leaves are somewhat roughly cut. View More...
