Claudin, A.

HISTOIRE DE L'IMPRIMERIE EN FRANCE AU XVÈME ET AU XVIÈME SIÈCLE. FOUR PORTFOLIOS.

Four volumes.
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1900 - 1914. folio. original quarter cloth over paper-covered boards, all edges uncut. (x), xxiv, 490; (iv), 572; (vi), 550; (xvii), 528 pages. Four volumes. First edition, printed for the occasion of the Exposition Universelle Internationale of 1900. Complete in all four portfolios. T.M. Cleland's copy with his bookplates on each of the four pastedowns. Some of the cloth ties are broken and lacking. Hinges tender of each portfolio. Rubbing along the..... READ MORE about HISTOIRE DE L'IMPRIMERIE EN FRANCE AU XVÈME ET AU XVIÈME SIÈCLE. FOUR PORTFOLIOS

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Cleland, TM.

THE FINE ART OF PRINTING.

New York: The New York Public Library, 1960. tall 8vo. paper wrappers. (14) pages. Limited to 700 copies. Reprint of a talk given with illustrations added. READ MORE about THE FINE ART OF PRINTING

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 1448

Cleverdon, Douglas (compiler).

ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS: THE CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1570 AND 1932.

(London, England): The British Council, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 28 pages. Presentation on inside front wrapper. Introduction. 66 entries, each with descriptive text. Front cover notes concluding date of 1933 rather than 1932. READ MORE about ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS: THE CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1570 AND 1932

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(Clinker Press). Krew, Thomas.

THE ITALIAN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS.

n.p. (but Pasadena, CA): (Clinker Press), 2006. large 8vo. broadside. Privately designed and printed by hand by artist Andre Chaves to commemorate a lecture by Krew on December 6, 2006 at the University Club of Pasadena. Introduced by Susan M. Allen and sponsored by the Zamorano Club. READ MORE about THE ITALIAN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS

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(Cochin, C.N.). Dusejour, Dionis.

THE ORIGIN OF THE GRACES, ILLUSTRATED WITH THE ORIGINAL COPPERPLATE ENGRAVINGS AFTER THE DESIGNS OF C.N. COCHIN.

London: Vizetelly, (ca. 1885). large 8vo. original quarter cloth with decorated paper-covered boards. 63, (3) pages. Limited to 50 numbered copies with the duplicate illustrations (one set with black ink and another in 'sanguine') from a total of 350 copies. Moderate shelfwear, particularily at the corners. Front free endpaper detached yet present. Text crisp and bright. Published by Henry Vizitelly (1820-1894), a pioneer of the English illustrated press, who issued numerous translations of 18th century..... READ MORE about THE ORIGIN OF THE GRACES, ILLUSTRATED WITH THE ORIGINAL COPPERPLATE ENGRAVINGS AFTER THE DESIGNS...

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Cohen, Henri.

GUIDE DE L'AMATEUR DE LIVRES A GRAVURES DU XVIII SIECLE.

(Mansfield Centre: Maurizio Martino, n.d. but circa 1997). thick 8vo. cloth. xxvi, 1247 pages. Reprint of the sixth and best edition of this bibliography of French eighteenth-century illustrated books which was revised and enlarged by Seymour Dericci. Originally published in Paris by Librairie A. Rouquette in 1912. READ MORE about GUIDE DE L'AMATEUR DE LIVRES A GRAVURES DU XVIII SIECLE

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Cole, Timothy.

CONSIDERATIONS ON ENGRAVING.

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1921. 8vo. boards, paper cover label. (ii), 15 pages. First edition. Spine and hinges worn. Some shelfwear. Pencil signed engraved frontispiece by Cole as the tipped-in frontispiece wood engraving. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Timothy Cole (1852-1931) was born in London but spent virtually his entire life in America. In 1875, having lost all his worldly possessions in the Chicago fire, he moved to New York where he found work with..... READ MORE about CONSIDERATIONS ON ENGRAVING

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 22046

(Columbia University).

THE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, COLLECTIONS AND TREASURES.

New York: Columbia University Libraries, (1985). large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 138, (2) pages. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies. A fine copy. Catalogue of the rare book and illuminated manuscript collection of Columbia University, spanning from 2291 B.C. to the twentieth century. Describes 121 items. Indexed. Many illustrations throughout. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about THE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, COLLECTIONS AND TREASURES

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Cooke, Simon.

ILLUSTRATED PERIODICALS OF THE 1860S: CONTEXTS & COLLABORATIONS.

New Castle, Delaware, Pinner and London, England: Oak Knoll Press, The Private Libraries Association, The British Library, 2010. 7.25 x 10.75 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 224 pages. The 1860s are considered the "Golden Age" of illustrated periodicals, a time when the "knockabout" humor of the 1840s, which was dominated by illustrators such as Cruikshank, Doyle, and Phiz, gave way to a more considered style grounded in serious artistic principles, allowing for deeper expression and emotion..... READ MORE about ILLUSTRATED PERIODICALS OF THE 1860S: CONTEXTS & COLLABORATIONS

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(Corvinus). Csapodi-Gárdonyi, Klára.

BIBLIOTHECA CORVINIANA, THE LIBRARY OF KING MATTHIAS CORVINUS OF HUNGARY.

(Budapest): Magyar Helikon, (1981). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 334, (2) pages. Reprint of second edition, revised. With many illustrations of illuminated manuscript leaves reproduced in full color. Indexed. Translated by Bertha Gaster. Minor rubbing of jacket along edges. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHECA CORVINIANA, THE LIBRARY OF KING MATTHIAS CORVINUS OF HUNGARY

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Courboin, Francois.

LA GRAVURE EN FRANCE DES ORIGINES A 1900.

Paris: Librarie Delagrave, 1923. paper wrappers. 258 pages with 8 additional plates. First edition. This treatise on the history of French printmaking is illustrated with 204 black-and-white reproductions and 8 additional color plates. Included among the artists discussed are Geoffroy Tory, Jacques Callot, Charles-François Daubigny, and Eugène Delacroix. Indexed. All but disbound with spine lacking. Some staining on covers. READ MORE about LA GRAVURE EN FRANCE DES ORIGINES A 1900

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(Cousins, Albert). Lister, Raymond.

THE ILLUMINATOR, A TRIBUTE TO ALBERT COUSINS.

Cambridge: Golden Head Press, 1966. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. (vi), 10, (2), xii pages. Limited to 250 copies. With ten plates including two in full color showing examples of the illuminated work of Cousins. Also contains a check list of known illuminations. With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about THE ILLUMINATOR, A TRIBUTE TO ALBERT COUSINS

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Craig, Edward Gordon.

INDEX TO THE STORY OF MY DAYS.

New York: Viking Press, 1957. 8vo. cloth. viii, 308 pages, with 31 additional plates. First U.S. edition. Exlibris bookplate on front free endpaper. Lacking the dust jacket. Light toning to edges of the boards. Else a fine copy. This volume constitutes the first instalment of the memoirs upon which C.E.G. had been working on at the time of publication. Assisted by diaries and notebooks which he kept for long periods at a time he writes..... READ MORE about INDEX TO THE STORY OF MY DAYS

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