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See More... (Albright, Ivan) Croydon, Michael IVAN ALBRIGHT.
New York Abbeville Press (1978) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 308 pages.
First edition. Full of illustrations including many in color. Presentation from Albright on title page. Minor chipping of jacket. Some soiling of title page. Small stamp of art museum at bottom of title page.
Price: $ 180.00 other currencies Order nr. 102979

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See More... Alken, Henry THE ART AND PRACTICE OF ETCHING; WITH DIRECTIONS FOR OTHER METHODS OF LIGHT AND ENTERTAINING ENGRAVING.
London S. & J. Fuller 1849 square 8vo. original cloth with new spine covering. Frontispiece; 58, (6) pages, 8 plates
First edition (Bridson & Wakeman B17 - for second edition of 1851). A treatise on the technique of etching by one of Britain's greatest ever sporting artists. An avid sportsman himself, Alken specialized in depicting hunting, coaching, racing, shooting and fishing scenes. British sporting periodicals frequently carried his illustrations. In this book, he distills some forty years of experience of both practicing and teaching his art into an excellent practical manual on his techniques. Engraved plates by Alken. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Inside hinges cracked. Rebacked with new cloth and with a modern paper spine label. Ink ownership inscription at top of title page.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 65235

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See More... (Anderson, Alexander) Lossing, Benson. J. A MEMORIAL OF ALEXANDER ANDERSON, M.D., THE FIRST ENGRAVER OF WOOD IN AMERICA. READ BEFORE THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, OCT. 5, 1870.
New York Printed for the Subscribers 1872 small 4to. contemporary half-red morocco, spine gilt, five raised bands, top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece; (vi), 107 pages
First edition. With 38 plates and other illustrations in text. A scarce and interesting work, well illustrated with examples of Anderson's ouevre. Bewick was avowedly a seminal influence and several of the plates show Anderson's engravings after Bewick. An Appendix contains an autobiographical sketch of Anderson (1775-1869) written in 1848 at the age of 73. Blank top portion of half-title excised, appendix a little spotted.
Price: $ 460.00 other currencies Order nr. 80863

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Andrews, William Loring HEAVENLY JERUSALEM, A MEDIAEVAL SONG OF THE JOYS OF THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT, WITH ANNOTATIONS BY WILLIAM LORING ANDREWS.
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1908 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, top edge gilt, stiff paper chemise, slipcase. xxviii, 78, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 152 copies of which this is one of the 27 copies to be printed on "Imperial Japan Paper." With engravings by Sidney L. Smith and other illustrations, rubricated initials and an illuminated copy of a page from a 15th-century musical manuscript. Chemise has spine missing. Book is in very fine condition.
Price: $ 385.00 other currencies Order nr. 55196

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See More... Angel, Marie BEASTS IN HERALDRY
Brattleboro VT Stephen Greene Press (1974) square 8vo paper-covered boards, paper-covered clamshell box with pictorial front pastedown not paginated
First edition, one of 100 numbered and signed copies. Laid-in, in original folder with waxed seal, is a print of an eagle with printed initials M. A. Loose page noting contents and limitation also laid- in. A very attractive book relating the charming pictures of Miss Angel to the creatures of heraldry. Twenty animals represented. The protective clamshell box is stained.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 107031

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See More... (Angelo, Valenti) Angelo, Valenti VALENTI ANGELO, AUTHOR ILLUSTRATOR PRINTER
San Francisco Book Club of California 1976 folio half cloth over boards, plain paper dust jacket. 97, (3) pages.
First edition, limited to 400 copies printed by Andrew Hoyem. Design of title page and decorations throughout book by Angelo who has also added colors and gold by hand. Signed by Angelo. Chapters by Oscar Lewis, Robert Grabhorn, Sherwood Anderson, Annis Duff and an autobiography by Angelo. Followed by a bibliography of his illustrated work. Contains 43 specimen pages, in color, of Valenti Angelo's work. With prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 76274

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See More... (Angelo, Valenti) HYMNS TO APHRODITE.
New York Valenti Angelo 1949 small 4to. quarter parchment over boards. (22) pages.
Limited to 150 numbered copies and signed by Angelo. (Angelo Biblio. p.79). Hand-printed by Angelo and with a frontispiece, three hand-drawn initials and a colophon mark illuminated in red and gold all by Angelo. Beautifully designed and executed spread-title page. Slight soiling along top edge of front cover.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 22089

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See More... (Anvil Press) ANDROMACHE: A TRAGEDY, FREELY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH IN 1674 FROM JEAN RACINE'S "ANDROMAQUE" BY A YOUNG GENTLEMAN & JOHN CROWNE.
Lexington Anvil Press 1986 small 4to. cloth-backed boards, paper spine label, dust jacket. vii, 51, (7) pages.
This work was limited to 100 numbered copies printed by Carolyn Hammer and W. Gay Reading at the Anvil Press in Victor Hammer's American and Andromaque uncial types. With a foreword by Desmond Flower and illustrations throughout by Fritz Kredel, Andromache is a very fine copy of a magnificent production.
Price: $ 850.00 other currencies Order nr. 33736

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See More... (Archetype Press) Bentley, Wilder (Editor). N'EN PARLONS PLUS!, EXCERPTS FROM DIVERS PAPERS & CHRONICLES OF THE ARTS CLUB, 1937-1938.
Berkeley Archetype Press 1939 folio cloth with printed design on front cover 19+(1) pages
Limited to 105 copies, set up and printed on a handpress by Wilder Bentley ("and his faithful spouse, Ellen") on dampened Strathmore Wayside Text for at The Archetype Press in Euclid Court, Berkeley, Ca and issued for private distribution among members of The Arts Club & their friends. Printed in "a bastard version" of Caslon Oldface italic and Goudy Modern roman. Wood-engraved abstraction of the initial i for the Prolegomena, vignette on the title-page, and design for the front cover by John C. Haley. Excerpts from chronicles of The Arts Club's past season. "It is not primarily designed to explain to the world in general what we are, what we do, how well we reason, or how badly we sing. Rather it is a souvenir, intended to revive some of our very happy memories." Finely printed.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 62298

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See More... (Baron Munchausen) THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN.
Illustrated by William Strang and J.B. Clark, with an Introduction by Thomas Seccombe N.P. n.p. n.d. 8vo. original three-quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards, five raised bands, five gilt decorated spine panels, marbled end papers, top edge gilt. lvi, 299+(1) pages
Privately printed for Subscribers only. Printed in Holland by G.J. Thieme. While the date and location of the present copy are unknown, the text and illustrations appear to be that of the 1895 edition printed in London and New York. Unopened. Wear at extremities.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 93700

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See More... (Baskin, Leonard) Crane, Hart VOYAGES, SIX POEMS FROM WHITE BUILDINGS.
New York The Museum of Modern Art 1957 oblong 4to. hand-sewn stiff paper wrappers with paper label on front wrapper; portfolio with same paper label on front cover (14) pages excluding bound-in or mounted illustrations
Limited to 975 numbered copies and 25 lettered review copies, signed by illustrator Leonard Baskin. This is a numbered copy. Second in a series of limited editions published by the Museum of Modern Art under Monroe Wheeler. Designed, illustrated and printed by Baskin at the Gehenna Press in Northampton, Massachusetts. Illustrations printed from six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and Moriki and Mending tissue (hand-made in Japan). See Brook, A Bibliography of the Gehenna Press, 8 (item 11). Portfolio lightly sunned at spine and slightly torn at edges. Label on portfolio has piece lacking along edge.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 114358

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See More... (Beardsley, Aubrey) Macfall, Haldane AUBREY BEARDSLEY, THE CLOWN, THE HARLEQUIN, THE PIERROT OF HIS AGE.
New York Simon and Schuster 1927 small 4to. cloth, top edge gilt. 270 pages.
First edition, one of 300 numbered copies signed by Macfall. A comprehensive biography of Beardsley with many illustrations including some tipped-in plates.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 45918

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See More... (Beardsley, Aubrey) Macfall, Haldane AUBREY BEARDSLEY, THE CLOWN, THE HARLEQUIN, THE PIERROT OF HIS AGE.
New York Simon and Schuster 1927 small 4to. cloth, top edge gilt, slipcase with paper spine label. 270 pages.
First edition, one of 300 numbered copies signed by Macfall. A comprehensive biography of Beardsley with many illustrations including some tipped-in plates. Slipcase worn with top missing. A few scratch marks to front cover. Ephemeral related material loosely inserted.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 95239

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See More... Bebr, Antonín VITEZNÉ OBLOUKY A SLEPÉ ULICKY.
Prague Básne 1930 4to quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards, raised bands on spine, author and title gilt-stamped on spine, top edge cut, other edges uncut 99, (5) pages
Limited numbered edition of 25, the number handwritten and initialled by the illustrator. (Arno Sánka, 2334). Text in Czech. Frontispiece. Triumphal Arches and an Impasse. Collection of poetry by Antonin Bebr. Etchings and woodcut illustrations signed by artist Frantisek Kobliha. Handmade paper. Bookseller's description, in Czech, laid in. Slightly faded along edges.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 108027

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See More... (Bewick, Thomas) Aesop FABLES OF AESOP, AND OTHERS, WITH DESIGNS ON WOOD
Newcastle Printed by E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son 1823 8vo. mid-nineteenth century full diced calf xxiv, 376 pages
Second edition copy from a limited edition of 1000. An illustrated version of the classical Aesop's Fables, with illustrations by the English wood engraver Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). This is a Demy copy. (See Roscoe, 1953, 165-170). Recased, preserving original calf binding. Free endpaper with archival paper repairs along edges. Occasional spotting and some of the page corners bent inward. Signature by previous owner in brown ink on the free front endpaper. Well-preserved copy.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 75652

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See More... (Bewick, Thomas and John) Hugo, Thomas THE BEWICK COLLECTOR A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS OF THOMAS AND JOHN BEWICK; INCLUDING CUTS, IN VARIOUS STATES, FOR BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS, PRIVATE GENTLEMEN, PUBLIC COMPANIES, EXHIBITIONS, RACES, NEWSPAPERS ... AND WOOD BLOCKS. With A SUPPLEMENT TO A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE...
2 volumes. London Lovell Reeve and Co. 1866, 1868 small 4to. contemporary leather with spine covering missing, all edges gilt. xxiii,562,24; xxxii,353,(3) pages.
First editions. Includes illustrations in books, pamphlets, exhibitions, invoice heads, broadsides, wood blocks, and other mediums. Very scarce in first edition and more desirable than the reprint because of the quality of the illustrations. Rubbed with some wear along hinges.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 39425

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See More... (Bewick, Thomas) Atkinson, George C. SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND WORKS OF THE LATE THOMAS BEWICK ... READ JUNE, 15, 1830. [Drop-title:]
[Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland] (1831) 4to. self paper wrappers, removed. pp. 132-159
Engraved plate showing bust of Bewick by Bailey. Very scarce. The earliest posthumous account of Bewick. Laid-down on the final leaf is a small broadside, with text noting the death of Bewick, his place of burial, and his descendants, set between two Bewick funereal vignettes. Removed from larger volume.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 79946

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See More... (Bewick, Thomas) Tattersfield, Nigel THOMAS BEWICK, THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATIVE WORK
3 Volumes. New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2011 small 4to. cloth. 1580 pages
Thomas Bewick can be called one of the best English exponents of wood engraving. Born in 1753, he grew up on a small farm, where his chores came second to his interest in the countryside, fishing, and watching birds and animals. These early passions set the stage for his future endeavors.

His early work of cutting soft wood for woodcuts eventually turned into fine detailed designs into hard wood. Beginning in the late 1700s onwards, Thomas illustrated many children's books with one of his most famous books, The History of British Birds. The book contained bird engravings and wood cuts and was an immediate success. Other major publications that helped solidify Bewick's success include The Chillingham Bull, Waiting for Death, A General History of Quadrupeds, and The Fables of Aesop and Others.

Bewick's celebrated histories of quadrupeds and birds of 1790, 1797, and 1804 have obscured the immense number of other books of all denominations illustrated in his modest workshop. From its inception in 1765 until its demise in 1849, the workshop provided illustrations to books, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers. The range of illustrations encompassed natural histories, children's storybooks, cookery books, religious tracts, spelling books, mathematical treatises, Bibles, agricultural manuals, local town and county histories, joke books, and even a book of sermons.

Generously illustrated and arranged alphabetically, this book details some 750 titles, over 450 of which are unrecorded in earlier bibliographies. In addition it provides sections on newspaper mastheads, book cover designs, copy-book covers, maps, and large single prints. Whether appealing to the Bewick aficionado, book historian, art historian, provincial printing enthusiast, or admirer of engraving on wood or copper, this will be an indispensable work.

Nigel Tattersfield is the author of Bookplates by Beilby and Bewick, published by Oak Knoll Press and The British Library and John Bewick: Engraver on Wood, published by Oak Knoll Press.
No slipcase.

Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 108593

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See More... Blake, William ILLUSTRATIONS TO YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS DONE IN WATER-COLOUR BY WILLIAM BLAKE.
Cambridge, MA Fogg Museum of Art 1927 folio cloth portfolio with fold-in flaps and ties. (20) pages + 30 plates.
Printed for the Fogg Art Museum by the Harvard University Press in an edition limited to 500 numbered copies (Bentley 395). Prefatory Note by Chester N. Greenough. Introductory Essay by Geoffrey Keynes. Thirty plates, five in color, selected from the 537 original water-colors in the library of William Augustus White. An excellent job of color facsimile, showing the glory of the original water-colors. Portfolio is faded.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 70129

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  Blum, André LES ORIGINES DU LIVRE À GRAVURES EN FRANCE, LES INCUNABLES TYPOGRAPHIQUES.
Paris et Bruxelles Les Éditions G. Van Oest 1928 4to. later cloth with original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. xi, 99 pages followed by 78 plates.
First edition. A study of the beginning of the engraved book in France. With 177 illustrations. With a bookplate indicating that this book came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus. Covers soiled. Some chipping of edges of preliminary pages.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 26137

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See More... Boutet, Henri LA GRAVURE À L'EAU-FORTE.
Paris Édition de l'Atelier d'Art / Lefranc & Cie (1904) tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers with modern paper spine label. (vi), 41, (5) pages.
First edition. A manual of etching. Part of a series entitled "Bibliothèque practique des Arts d'Amateurs." With a color illustration of a young lady etching on the front cover. All eight plates are present and loosely inserted in pocket in the back. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 98559

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See More... Canby, Henry Seidel THE BRANDYWINE.
Illustrated by Andrew Wyeth. New York Farrar & Rinehart (1941) 8vo. cloth. (ii), xiv, 285 pages.
First edition, one of 650 numbered copies signed by Canby and Wyeth and printed for the Greenwood Book Shop. Part of the Rivers of America Series. Has a special limitation page bound-in at the beginning which is signed by Canby and Wyeth. Spine shows some rubbing.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 28503

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  Casilear, George W. SCRAP BOOKS.
7 Volumes. N.P. n.p. n.d. 4to. variously bound unpaginated
Seven volumes of engravings collected by George W. Casilear. Casilear was an engraver and landscape artist in New York from 1847 to 1852, working with his brother John W. Casilear from 1847 to 1848. In 1851, he produced, with Henry Bainbridge, A View of San Francisco, published by Sarony and Major in 1851. About the same time, he produced a view of Sacramento, also published by Sarony. He also produced the sketch used by G.V. Cooper for the frontispiece in Lett's Pictoral View of California. See George C. Groce and David H. Wallace, The New-York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 (New Haven: Yale Univerity Press, 1957), 114.

Casilear then worked as an editor, secretary and solicitor of patents from 1852 to 1857. In 1862, he became Chief of the Engraving Division of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. Casilear was instrumental in the redesign of United States currency in 1864. One contemporary news account called his engraving of the landing of Columbus "superior to that of the original." (The Farmer's Cabinet, Amherst, New Hampshire, January 21, 1864). But in May 1878, Casilear was accused of "gross misconduct" and a congressional committee chair urged President Rutherford B. Hayes to remove him from office (Herald Tribune, New York, May 2, 1878). Casilear remained in office, and he would lead an investigation of counterfeiting of United States bonds based on evidence found by the Secret Service in Chicago (Herald Tribune, New York, October 1, 1880). See also Ben. Perley Poore, Congressional Directory (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1872 and 1881).

Casilear was finally removed from office in 1885, being replaced by John A. O'Neill of Hoboken, New Jersey. News accounts stated that no charges of wrongdoing had emerged, and Casilear was "considered one of the best engravers in the country" (New York Times, April 17, 1885). But a subsequent news account stated that Casilear's replacement would "bring new life to a division that has been charged with a lack of ingenuity and freshness." The same account averred that Casilear had "never touched a graver or a plate in the production of a government note," noting his focus on designing silver certificates and bonds" (New York Times, April 18, 1885). Possibly, politics was a factor, the Democratic Cleveland administration having recently replaced the Republican Arthur administration.

The seven volumes include well over 500 engravings mostly from England, continental Europe, with some from the United States. There is no apparent format of organization, but some points are worthy of note. One volume, labeled "Miscellaneous Engravings" includes a number of English engravings attributed to James Virtue, the National Gallery and the Royal Collection. Another, labeled "Engravings," also has a number of items attributed to Virtue. A third volume, labeled "Scrap Book-Engravings and Etchings by the Old and New School," includes mainly English, French and German items, with translations into English of some of the French captions. A fourth volume, labeled "Scrap Book," includes annotations with handwritten biographical information about many of the engravers and descriptive information about the engravings. A fifth volume includes an engraving of President Chester Arthur with a facsimile signature and date, along with French, English, German and American engravings.

Five of the seven volumes are bound in half leather, marbled paper-covered boards. One is bound in leather, gilt decorated, and one half leather, cloth boards. Casilear's bookplate is on the front pastedown of each volume. The volumes are rubbed and scuffed at the edges, and there is some foxing.

Price: $ 4,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 114553

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See More... CA, THE JOURNAL OF THE COMMUNICATION ARTS.
Palo Alto, CA Coyne & Blanchard, Inc. 1968- 4to. stiff paper wrappers. various pagination.
A huge run of this important magazine. 124 issues. Includes the following:
Volume X, No.1-6. (1968)
Volume XI, No.1-6. (1969)
Title changes to Communications Arts Magazine with volume XI, No.2.
Volume XII, No.1-6. (1970)
Volume XIII, No.1-6. (1971)
Volume XIV, No.1-6. (1972)
Volume XVI, No.3,4,5. (1974)
Volume XVII, No.2-6. (1975)
Volume XVIII, No.1-6. (1976)
Volume XIX, No.1-6. (1977)
Now switches to whole number issues. Volume XIX, No.6 (whole issue 129).
130-155, 165, 167-170, 172-175, 177, 179--188, 190-192, 194, 195, 200, 203, 205, 206, 214, 215, 220, 223-226, 228, 236, 256-259, 261, 263-266, 268 (1996).

Price: $ 1,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 105705

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See More... (Children's Books) Rümann, Arthur ALTE DEUTSCHE KINDERBÜCHER, MIT BIBLIOGRAPHIE UND EINHUNDERTFÜNFZIG BILDTAFELN.
Vienna Herbert Reichner 1937 8vo. cloth, cardboard slipcase. 102+(1) pages plus 368 leaves of plates
First edition (Besterman 1306). Numbered (but not limited) edition. Bibliography of German children's literature, especially from the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. 368 entries. Color plates interspersed through introductory chapters; black-and-white plates grouped at the back. Plates include story illustrations, full-page facsimiles, title pages and frontispieces. Nice presentation on free endpaper "To Miss Elizabeth Mongan with the publishers* compliments, H. Reichner, June 24, 1940. * and author of the bibliographical part of this book." Spine age darkened.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 114239

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