NOTES OF AN ALCHEMIST.
New York: Scribner, 1972. large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 125 pages. First edition. A fine copy in fine jacket. Illustrated by Laszlo Kubinyi. READ MORE about NOTES OF AN ALCHEMIST
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137859
New York: Scribner, 1972. large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 125 pages. First edition. A fine copy in fine jacket. Illustrated by Laszlo Kubinyi. READ MORE about NOTES OF AN ALCHEMIST
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137859
2 Volumes.
Takeley, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England: Elkin Mathews, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 46, (2); 14, (4) pages, plates. 2 Volumes. Catalogues 113 and 127, of the works of notable English book illustrators. Each with index of authors and subjects. Black and white illustrations throughout text and on wrappers. Order form and prospectus laid in. 28 plates loosely inserted in Catalogue 127. Wrappers of Catalogue 127 slightly bent at corners. READ MORE about A COLLECTION OF DRAWINGS MADE TO ILLUSTRATE BOOKS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 124784
Kingsport: Kingsport Press, 1952. tall 8vo. cloth. (xx), 76 pages. First hardbound edition, the original series appeared in Publisher's Weekly. 76 illustrations. A near fine copy. READ MORE about BOOK ILLUSTRATION, A SURVEY OF ITS HISTORY & DEVELOPMENT SHOWN BY THE WORK OF VARIOUS ARTISTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 59775
Cambridge and Teaneck, NJ: Chadwyck-Healey, (1985). small 4to. cloth. xxi, 297 pages. First edition. Top corner of front board bumped. Else near fine condition. Includes biographical information and a statement on the artist's importance. Restricted to English engravers. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about DICTIONARY OF VICTORIAN WOOD ENGRAVERS
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 31798
New York: The Grolier Club, 1908. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, untrimmed and partially unopened. viii, 100 pages. Asaf Handlist 62. Describes 296 examples by 147 engravers. With biographical notes on each. Small tear along the base of the front joint, else a good copy. The frontispiece is a figure in profile with the caption "Drawn and Engrav'd by Sam' Menin of Philadel.a." The front wrapper is printed with a copper-engraved title. This exhibit included works..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF EARLY AMERICAN ENGRAVING UPON COPPER 1727-1850
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 17438
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1966. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xviii, 221+(1) pages. Exhibition catalogue for 215 prints of engravings from and often by 102 artists, from the 15th cent. to Expressionism. Numbered entries indicate artist, engraver, medium, owner, references, etc. as appropriate. In addition, major artists have biographical sketches in unnumbered entries. With appendices of entries for an additional 12 items (not reproduced) and a brief description of engraving methods used. Moderate soiling. Backing creased..... READ MORE about LES PLUS BELLES GRAVURES DU MONDE OCCIDENTAL, 1410-1914
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 53697
n.p. (but New York, NY): Equinox Cooperative Press, (1932). small 8vo. blue paper wrappers, cord tied. (6) pages. First edition, No. four in the Equinox Quarters. Spine lightly faded, else a near fine copy. Wood-engraved illustrations by John P. Heins. A very scarce pamphlet. Partially unopened. READ MORE about PRELUDE. A POEM BY CONRAD AIKEN
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 138740
The Brook, Hammersmith, United Kingdom: Eragny Press pour la Société des Cent Bibliophiles. 1909. 8vo. (222 x 144 mm). supple gray calfskin, repeated golden floral ornaments on the sides, smooth spine, leather lining of the same skin, later marbled paper covered boards slipcase with leather fore-edge. [87 leaves (including blanks); pp. 159, (i). The beautiful Eragny Press edition limited to 130 numbered copies printed on Arches with watermark 'Les Cent Bibliophiles', of which this copy..... READ MORE about HISTOIRE DE LA REINE DU MATIN ET DE SOLIMAN, PRINCE DE GENIES
Price: $9,500.00 Order nr. 136849
London: Sotheby's, 1987. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 63 pages. Illustrated. Ink stamp ownership stamp in right hand corner of title page. READ MORE about MAX ERNST. A MAJOR COLLECTION OF HIS LITERARY AND ILLUSTRATIVE WORK
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 86276
Introduction by Ruth Mortimer.
Northampton, MA: Smith College Museum of Art, 1977. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (61) pages. Introduction by Ruth Mortimer. First edition. A fine copy. Foreword by Charles Chetham. Fully describes and depicts illustrations from 40 books in the Selma Erving collection of Livre D'artiste in the Smith College Museum of Art. Includes illustrations by Marc Chagall, Jean Louis Forain, Matisse, Picasso and others. READ MORE about THE SELMA ERVING COLLECTION OF MODERN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 34085
and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David; Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches (of King Edward VII.)
New York: M. Walter Dunne, 1904. folio. Bound in full red leather, black leather gilt cover title label, leather pastedowns and endpapers, in black cloth slipcase. (xvi), 386, (2) pages with a laid in supplement of viii pages. and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David; Pointed as they are to be sung..... READ MORE about BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
Price: $495.00 Order nr. 105384
Illustrated by Reginald Savage.
London ; New York: Edward Arnold : Samuel Buckley & Co, 1904. 8vo. quarter cloth over holland-backed boards, paper cover label and paper spine label. 94 pages. Illustrated by Reginald Savage. First edition limited to 200 numbered copies. Essex House Press Bibliography p. 74. Ransom 41. With two loose tissue guards. Boards and spine showing only the slightest hint of soiling, else a fine copy. Printed with three drawings by Reginald Savage under the care..... READ MORE about MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: A GOLDEN LEGEND
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 137958
(Strand, UK: Edward Arnold, 1904). small 4to. later quarter leather over black cloth, leather cover label with gilt. (iv), 96 pages. Printed by C.R. Ashbee at The Essex House Press, Campden, Gloustershire, in an edition limited to 200 copies on hand-made Batchelor paper with a special watermark; type hand-set in 18-point Prayer Book, black and red, a variation of the 12-point Endeavour designed by Ashbee (Ransom p.268). Rebound in later quarter leather over black cloth..... READ MORE about PROMETHEUS UNBOUND, A LYRICAL DRAMA
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 73545
N.P. n.p., 1960. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 30, (2) pages. Covers the period 1910-1960. Illustrated. READ MORE about DANSKE BOGILLUSTRATORER GENNEM 50 AAR
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 45532
Chicago: The Sherwin Beach Press, 1992. large 4to. full leather binding, clamshell box with leather spine label. (vi), 45+(1) pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies. This copy has been bound in full red crushed morocco with morocco, calf, and python leather onlays representing honeycombs. The pastedowns and endsheets are a handmade pastepaper. An account of two beekeepers, with some history and explanations of beekeeping. Six full-page illustrations by Alice Brown-Wagner, who also set most of..... READ MORE about ESSENCE OF BEEING
Price: $1,500.00 Order nr. 139921
Lyon: 1561 (London: Eugrammia Press, 1962). folio. quarter leather with printed cloth covers, top edge gilt. Not paginated. Limited to 735 numbered copies published by the Eugrammia Press. Printed in collotype on page produced specially for this edition by W. & R. Balston. A facsimile reprint of the 1561Apocalypse de Jean (St. John's Revelation) and its wonderful engravings by Jean Duvet. Spine shows fading. Bookplate. READ MORE about L' APOCALYPSE FIGUREE, PAR MAISTRE IEHAN DUUET, IADIS ORSEVRE DES ROIS, FRANCOIS PREMIER DE CE...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 107034
London: European Illustration, (1986). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 215+(1) pages. The 13th annual volume. Filled with hundreds of illustrations with a number in color. READ MORE about EUROPEAN ILLUSTRATION, THE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 105724
London: European Illustration, (1985). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 222, (2) pages. The 12th annual volume. Filled with hundreds of illustrations with a number in color. Front cover damaged at bottom. READ MORE about EUROPEAN ILLUSTRATION, THE TWELFTH ANNUAL
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 105723
Edited and Introduced by Ruari McLean.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1968). square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 92 pages. Edited and Introduced by Ruari McLean. Reprint of the 1967 first edition. Illustrated including many in color. Contains a eight page list of books containing examples of color printing by Evans. Jacket is price clipped. READ MORE about THE REMINISCENCES OF EDMUND EVANS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 27482
Concord, VT: William B. Ewert, 1989. oblong 8vo. quarter cloth over paper-covered boards. unpaginated. Limited to 80 copies, of which this is one of 50 numbered copies signed by author and artist and bound thus. A fine copy. The original woodcuts by Mary Azarian were printed directly from the blocks. The edition, designed by John Kristensen, was printed from Garamond type on Curtis Rag paper and bound at the Firefly Press, Somerville, MA. READ MORE about THE AUCTION
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 139435
(New York): Ex Libris, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Ex Libris catalogue 9. Collection of Futurist manifestoes, literature, original documents photographs, postcards and exhibition catalogues. A number of items about Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. 698 entries with selected bibliography and index. Black and white illustrations. Wrappers bent at edges and lightly soiled. READ MORE about FUTURISM
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 109084
(New York): Ex Libris, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Ex Libris catalogue 5. Collection of items focusing on architecture, Dada, decorative arts, photography and surrealism. 1459 entries with selected bibliography and index. Black and white illustrations. Wrappers bent and faded at edges. READ MORE about MAJOR MOVEMENTS OF 20TH CENTURY ART II
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 109082
(Stuttgart: Dr. Cantz'sche Druckerei), 1965. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover and spine labels. xv+(i), 161, (9) pages. First edition. This exhibition of illustrated 18th century French books was held at Schloß Ludwigsburg in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. An essay about Hans Fürstenberg as a book collector prefaces the Catalogue. Over 270 books are described. Many book bindings and illustrations are reproduced in black & white. Indexed by author at rear. In German. Initials in ink on..... READ MORE about DAS BUCH ALS KUNSTWERK. FRANZÖSISCHE ILLUSTRIERTE BÜCHER DES 18. JAHRHUNDERTS AUS DER...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 77210
Hampshire, England: Scolar Press, 1988. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 196 pages. First edition, limited to 750 numbered copies. Spine faded on jacket, else fine condition. A check-list of books and plates printed by Fawcett, plus letters to, from or concerning him. Contains an outline of Fawcett's life, an interesting article on Fawcett's woodblock printing techniques by Gavin Bridson, and a look at scientific publishing in the nineteenth century. Many black and white illustrations, plus..... READ MORE about BENJAMIN FAWCETT ENGRAVER AND COLOUR PRINTER, WITH A LIST OF HIS BOOKS AND PLATES
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 23177
Washington, D.C. Fendrick Gallery, 1976. large 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. A catalogue for "Artists' Books" exhibitions held at the Fendrick Gallery. A fine copy. The volume lists and describes works exhibited from January 12 - February 14, 1976. Leaflet with price quotes inserted. Nicely illustrated with photographs by John Tennant. Depict designs by Buckminster Fuller and Barton Lidicé Benes, among many others. READ MORE about THE BOOK AS ART
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 63806