Paris: Pierre Beres, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 106 items described. Catalogue 77 issued by this French bookseller. Many illustrations including some in color. READ MORE about LIVRES A FIGURES DES XVe & XVIe SIECLES
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 34144
New York, NY: Pierre Beres, 1941-2. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 56 pages. Beres catalogue No. 6, 171 items. Introductory note, index of illustrations, general index. Black and white illustrations. Pencil notations on front cover. READ MORE about ILLUSTRATED BOOKS FROM THE 16TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131753
Paris: Pierre Berès, n.d. but circa 1975. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. Not paginated. Illustrated catalog of Pierre Berès' c.1975 offering of manuscripts and illuminated manuscripts from the 11th to 18th centuries. The catalog is divided by country--France, Italy, Germany, Flanders, Spain, Armenia and Ethiopia. Each entry provides a description of physical state and, when applicable, decoration and provenance. Prices are listed at the back. Extensively illustrated in black-and-white. Bookplate on inside front..... READ MORE about MANUSCRITS & ENLUMINURES DU ONZIEME AU DIX-HUITIEME SIECLE
Price: $26.00 Order nr. 59470
New York, NY: Pierre Beres, 1946. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. Beres catalog No. 12. Index of authors. A catalogue of French books noted for illstrations. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about MODERN FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131752
New York: New York Public Library & Readex Books, 1976. 4to. stiff paper folder, loose sheets. not paginated. Twenty-three selections from the new arrivals have been reproduced on the nineteen sheets included in this folder. Included is an illustration of Fitzgerald's translation of the Iliad. One of the sheets has a creased corner. Spine discolored, edges have minor wear. READ MORE about ABC, ARRIVALS IN THE BERG COLLECTION 1973-1975
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 91827
2 volumes bound in 1.
(Stors-Mansfield: Maurizio Martino Publisher, n.d. (but circa 1997). thick 8vo. cloth. xv,398; viii,399-782,(3) pages. 2 volumes bound in 1. Reprint of the 1936 - 1939 first edition. Descriptions of 5435 books containing illustrations, ornamentation, calligraphy, etc. Considered the most important bibliography of books on the decorative arts, this highly valuable reference book is now back in print. READ MORE about KATALOG DER ORNAMENTSTICHSAMMLUNG DER STAATLICHEN KUNSTBIBLIOTHEK BERLIN
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 52726
N.P. n.p., n.d. 8 1/2 by 6 inches. Two engravings printed from the original blocks, attributed to "Bewick." Cover notes that authenticity proved by Jane de Thomas in June 1964. Further note that "blocks borrowed from R. (Robert) Hunter Middleton." Both are foxed. READ MORE about Two engravings printed from the original Bewick blocks
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 128536
New Castle: City and County of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Public Libraries Committee, (1904). large 8vo. later cloth. (v), viii, 110, (2) pages. First edition. Lists 331 items pertaining to the life and works of artist Thomas Bewick collected over forty years by John William Pease. Includes black-and-white illustrations. Indexed. Contains frontispiece of Bewick from James Ramsay's picture "The Lost Child." READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE BEWICK COLLECTION (PEASE BEQUEST
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 123670
N.P. n.p., 1970. 4to. cloth portfolio, label on front cover. unpaginated. A collection of 38 of Thomas Bewick's (1753-1828) prints, many labelled "Cherryburn Edition 1970" with numbers ranging from 3 to 89. The Cherryburn Press was operated by Robert Hunter Middleton. According to the Libraries and Culture Bookplate Archive of the University of Texas Austin, Middleton printed two portfolio editions of Bewick engravings, in 1945 and 1970. The complete 1970 portfolio included 100 engravings. Label..... READ MORE about Collection of Thomas Bewick Prints
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 118525
N.P. UCLA, 1982. small 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. Limited to 100 copies. The nine illustrations have been printed from photoengravings of Bewick's original work. A pamphlet of excerpts from an article by W.P. Garrison titled "Thomas Bewick," which appeared more than one hundred years ago in Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Slight shelf wear. READ MORE about THOMAS BEWICK
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 97491
Edited and with an Introduction by Montague Weekly.
London: The Cresset Press, 1961. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxxv, 204 pages. Edited and with an Introduction by Montague Weekly. First edition. A new edition of this classic. READ MORE about MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 22683
New York: The Typophiles, 1943. tall 12mo. cloth-backed boards. (ii), 70, (4) pages. First edition, limited to 550 numbered copies; this copy is out of series. Contains numerous engravings and woodcuts. Pencil presentation on free endpaper "To Richard Harwell with the sincere regard of R. Ruzicka, May 27, 1962." With Ruzicka small booklabel. Abrased spots on front cover. READ MORE about THOMAS BEWICK, ENGRAVER
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 93708
WITH A NOTE ON HIM BY JOHN RAYNER.
London: King Penguin Books, 1947. tall 12mo. boards. 56 pages. WITH A NOTE ON HIM BY JOHN RAYNER. Filled with illustrations. Covers soiled. READ MORE about A SELECTION OF ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD BY THOMAS BEWICK
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 22818
3 volumes.
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2011. 7.5 x 10.75 inches. Hardcover, slipcase. 1580 pages. 3 volumes. 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..... READ MORE about THOMAS BEWICK, THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATIVE WORK
Price: $265.00 Order nr. 102274
Collegeville, MN: The Saint John's Bible, (2005). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 216, (2) pages. Table of contents, preface by Christopher de Hamel, appendices and credits. Color illustrations throughout. An account of what one reviewer called "America's Book of Kells." READ MORE about ILLUMINATING THE WORD: THE MAKING OF THE ST. JOHN'S BIBLE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 130582
Lund: n.p., 1955. 8vo. paper-covered boards. 205, (23) pages. Text in Swedish. Journal of the Cultural Historical Society of Southern Sweden. Feature article a history of Bibles and illustrations by Joh. Lindblom. Black and white illustrations of significant events depicted in Bibles published in Sweden from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Also includes advertising. Boards lightly soiled. READ MORE about KULTUREN: EN ÅRSBOK
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 108224
Villanova, PA: Donglomur Foundation, 1976. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. The exhibition was shown at Philadelphia Judaica Musuem, Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church and Princeton Seminary. With various introductory essays. Illustrated. 162 items described. Covers slightly faded. READ MORE about BIBLE AND ART, 12TH CENTURY - 20TH CENTURY, AN EXHIBITION OF BIBLE AND ART
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 123838
(Copenhagen: Selskabet Bogvennerne, n.d.). large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 88, (5) pages. First edition, limited to 777 numbered copies. A novel for book collectors, illustrated with the drawings of Mads Stage. Stage is a well known Danish book illustrator, water colorist and graphic artist. Light foxing of front and rear covers. In Danish. Pages unopened. READ MORE about UNIKUM. NOVELLER FOR BOGSAMLERE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 62773
Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1998. 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages. VOLUME 3, NO.11, NOV., 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: A. Tufel on George Eliot, R. Armstrong on Alan Paton, and J. Waters on "Invasion of the E-Books" (yes, a certain software company has expressed interest). N. Basbanes tours that institution, The Strand; R. Brown and Tasha Tucker discuss Tasha Tudor (with notice of the new Tasha Tudor bibliography by John & Jill Hare, published by..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Price: $4.95 Order nr. 53574
Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1999. 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages. Volume 4, Number 2, Feb., 1999. IN THIS ISSUE: S. Stipes on the slave narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs with a bibliography of other such narratives by C.L. Blockson, N.A. Basbanes on Tom Wolfe, I. Ungar and J.P. Ansell on the illuminator and anti-Nazi caricaturist Arthur Szyk, R. Meador on the Wine and Food Library in Ann Arbor, and MORE. READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Price: $4.95 Order nr. 54933
(Prague: Svazu Ceských Spisovatelu, 1971). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages. Text in Czech. Catalogue of work of Frantisek Bidlo (1895-1945), caricaturist many of whose cartoons lampooned the Nazis. Bidlo was put to death by the Nazis in 1945. Bidlo's cartoons illustrated in black and white. List of drawings and cartoons laid in. Wrappers faded near spine. READ MORE about FRANTISEK BIDLO
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 107602
(Boston, MA: Cummings and Hilliard, 1821). 4to. later quarter leather, cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine, back original paper wrapper, top edge cut, other edges uncut. 101-197+(1) pages. Shaw and Shoemaker 40247. Volume III, Part II only. Tissue protected color engravings by Jacob Bigelow. In addition to the engravings, the botanical history, results of chemical examinations, and medical uses are listed. The entire work was published between 1817 and 1821. Bigelow (1787-1879) was a physician and..... READ MORE about AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY
Price: $950.00 Order nr. 120469
London: Blandford Press, (1950). small 4to. cloth. 240 pages. First edition. Designed for those interested in drawing for graphic reproduction and anyone interested in learning more about the graphic processes. Lacking the dust jacket. Lightly soiled. READ MORE about ILLUSTRATION AND REPRODUCTION
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 81201
Dortmund: Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, 1986. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 267+(1) pages. First edition of this exhibition catalogue devoted to French illustration of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Well-illustrated with some plates in color. catalogue describes 136 items. Light spotting to jacket. READ MORE about BILDERWELTEN, FRANZOSISCHE ILLUSTRATIONEN
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 45507
New York: Arno Press, 1973. 8vo. silver cloth. (iv), 87, 60, 8, (4) pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1852 EDITION (the 9th edition of Part I and the 5th edition of Part II) (See Roosens & Luc Salu 6367). Part of the Literature of Photography series. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Ex-library copy with markings. READ MORE about PHOTOGENIC MANIPULATION. PART 1 AND II
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 98709
