New York: Typophiles, 1997. broadside (11 x 7 inches). An announcement of the Typophile meeting featuring Stephen Heaver as the speaker. Printed by hand by Bowne & Co. for the Typophiles and with a woodcut by John DePol printed in blue ink. Foldmark. READ MORE about TYPOPHILES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 106872
New York: The Financial Printer, 1981. 4to. engraved plate inserted in folder. A keepsake printed for St. Luke's to assist in rebuilding after a disastrous fire. Woodcut, suitable for framing, depicts the church and is printed in two colors. Folder is printed with information on the church and engraving. READ MORE about THE CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE IN THE FIELDS, A NEW WOOD ENGRAVING BY JOHN DEPOL
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 36516
New York: Pandick Press, Inc., 1976. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (12) pages and having two John DePol woodcut portraits of Hamilton and Burr loosely inserted. Illustrated. READ MORE about THE DUEL, JULY 11TH, 1804
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 40487
New York: Pandick Press, 1977. 4to. wood-engraving loosely inserted in paper portfolio. A wood engraving of this Boston building executed by John DePol. READ MORE about FANEUIL HALL, CRADLE OF LIBERTY, A WOOD ENGRAVING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 24880
N.P. (United States Bank Note Company, 1975). small 4to. paper folder enclosing a woodcut of the ferry by John DePol. Part of a series issued by the company. READ MORE about HOMEWARD FERRY
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 42161
N.P. (United States Bank Note Company, 1974). small 4to. paper folder enclosing a woodcut of Marshall by John DePol. Part of a series issued by the company. Signed and identified in print under the print by DePol. READ MORE about JOHN MARSHALL, "THE GREAT CHIEF JUSTICE" 1753-1835
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 40484
N.P: (United States Bank Note Company, 1974). small 4to. paper folder enclosing a woodcut of Irving by John DePol. Part of a series issued by the company. READ MORE about WASHINGTON IRVING, 1783-1859
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 40485
New York: United States Banknote Corporation, 1974. 13" x 9" Single sheet in folder. This is a Keepsake from the United States Banknote Corporation . A fine copy. The engraving was printed in two colors. DePol was that rare indiviual among the citizenry of New York, a born Manhattanite. Perhaps that is one reason he responded with such feeling, symmpathy and spirit to the many scenes of the city which he created. READ MORE about HUDSON RIVER PIER
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 79295
4 volumes being 1, 2, 3, 6.
Darmstadt: Verlagsanstalt Alexander Koch, 1897-1900. 4to. orginal publisher's binding of decorated cloth. (xvi), 204; (viii), 205-468; (xvi), 292; (viii), 305-596 pages. 4 volumes being 1, 2, 3, 6. Early volumes in this periodical which eventually merged into Die Kunst. With much on art nouveau. Some of the separate plates are in full color. Spines faded with wear. Front hinge of volume 2 broken. READ MORE about DEUTSCHE KUNST UND DEKORATION
Price: $750.00 Order nr. 105552
Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries.
Westminster: Nichols and Sons, 1895. 4to. original paper wrappers. 14 pages. Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries. Reprint from Archaeologia, Vol. XIV, pp.411-424. With nine photographic plates. Chipped along spine with cover partially detached. READ MORE about ON A MS. PONTIFICAL OF A BISHOP OF METZ OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 82633
Los Angeles: Raymond C. Gould, (1911). 12mo. cloth-backed boards. (15) pages. With 3 tipped-in plates that show colored mezzotint printing executed by Dickins at his London publishing house. A variant printing. Foxing of title page. READ MORE about A NOTE ON THE ART OF MEZZOTINT AND MEZZOTINT PRINTING IN COLOURS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 98734
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1977). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 134 pages. Printed in association with the Williams College Artist-in-Residence Program. The exhibition and catalogue of Jim Dine's prints were organized, designed and produced through the collaborative effort of the staff. It contains 236 entries with the prints, conversations with Jim Dine, a biography and a select bibliography. The front free endpaper is almost completely detached. READ MORE about JIM DINE PRINTS: 1970-1977
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 70360
Nürnberg: Johann Leonhard Schrag, (1838). 8vo. cloth. engraved frontispiece, 178 pages, folding music print at rear. First edition. Some fading along spine and edges of boards. Minor rubbing. A good copy. READ MORE about FRAUENSPIEGEL
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 138701
Con le sue figure a ogni libro, opera nuovamente venuta in luce, ne piu in lingua alcuna stampata.
Vinegia (Venice), Italy: Per Nicolo d'Aristotile di Ferrara detto Zoppino, 1533. 8vo. full brown morocco, stamped in blind, three raised bands on spine, title in gilt on black leather spine label. ff, (6) leaves, CCLXXXII leaves, ff. Con le sue figure a ogni libro, opera nuovamente venuta in luce, ne piu in lingua alcuna stampata. First edition. Adams D511; Graesse, II, 34; Moss I, 407; Sander 2436; Edit16 CNCE 17205. Not in Brunet (and earlier..... READ MORE about DIONE HISTORICO DELLE GUERRE & FATTI DE ROMANI: TRADOTTO DI GRECO IN LINGUA VULGARE PER M....
Price: $2,000.00 Order nr. 139108
Philadelphia: Oswald Train: Publisher, 1971. folio. gray pictorial wrappers, sadde-stapled. 10 plates. First edition, first printing. Tanning and staining along bottom edges on front and rear covers. Else very good. Chalker and Owings report a print run of 500 copies [but incorrectly describe the illustrations as laid in loose, given that every copy that I have seen has been bound as follows]. Collects a frontispiece pencil portrait of Edgar Rice Burroughs, 10 numbered plates based..... READ MORE about A PORTFOLIO OF DRAWINGS BY WILLIAM DIXON BASED ON THE NOVELS OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 137104
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1930. tall 8vo. brown cloth printed in black and red. xx, 184, (4) pages. First edition. Beautifully produced book with seven plates in color. Minor cover soiling. READ MORE about BLOCK-CUTTING AND PRINT-MAKING BY HAND FROM WOOD, LINOLEUM AND OTHER MEDIA
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 2157
Weinheim, Germany: Beltz, (1975). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 542, (2) pages. Text in German. Second edition. A history of the development of the picture book in Germany. Foreword to the first and second editions by the editors. Table of contents, bibliography compiled in part by Maria Voigt, photographic credits, index of persons. Black and white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket slightly chipped at edges. READ MORE about DAS BILDERBUCH: GESCHICHTE UND ENDWICKLUNG DES BILDERBUCHS IN DEUTSCHLAND VON DEN ANFÄNGEN BIS...
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 125711
N.P. n.p., 1907. 4to. half cloth with paste paper-covered boards, leather spine label. 21-34 pages plus 1 leaf of plates in black and white. Offprint from the journal, Jahrbuch d. K. Preussischer Kunstsammlung from 1907. The Swiss woodcutter and painter Master DS was active in the beginning in the sixteenth century. This study of Master DS's woodcuts is illustrated with six plates. With a memorial bookplate on the front pastedown which indicates that this copy..... READ MORE about DIE HOLZSCHNITTE DES BASELER MEISTERS DS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 77800
n.p. (New Haven, CT): self published, 1910. 8vo. original cream printed wrappers, string-bound. 23, (1) pages, errata slip tipped in at p. 23. Limited to 31 copies. Cover with a couple small moisture stains. Half of the cover is torn along the spine, but still holding. A very scarce book. Includes a list of 62 engravings by AD. Also published in the Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, vol. 8 (1914) p. 132-151..... READ MORE about AN OLD NEW HAVEN ENGRAVER AND HIS WORK: AMOS DOOLITTLE
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 138817
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press and the American Historical Print Collectors Society, 2008. 8.5 x 11 inches. cloth with dustjacket. 192 pages. As a copperplate engraver, Amos Doolittle (1754-1832) played an important role during the American colonies' war for independence and the early years of the new nation. He completed his apprenticeship in New Haven, Connecticut, around 1770 and continued to work actively in that city for over sixty years. His first known attempts are..... READ MORE about AMOS DOOLITTLE: ENGRAVER OF THE NEW REPUBLIC
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 93957
Stroud: Catalpa Press, 1983. tall 8vo. cloth. 206 pages. First edition. Volume 2 in The Artist and the Critic Series. The book illustrations and paintings of Richard Doyle (1824-1883) are populated by sprightly visions of fairy nymphs, elves and knights in search of their fair damsels. As `Dickey Doyle' and later `Dick Kitcat,' he produced a series of impressive boyhood triumphs from the now famous DICK DOYLE'S JOURNAL of 1840 to his first published work..... READ MORE about RICHARD DOYLE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 25737
Stroud: Catalpa Press, 1983. tall 8vo. cloth. 205, (11) pages. First edition. Volume 2 in The Artist and the Critic Series. Fine in fine jacket. The book illustrations and paintings of Richard Doyle (1824-1883) are populated by sprightly visions of fairy nymphs, elves and knights in search of their fair damsels. As `Dickey Doyle' and later `Dick Kitcat,' he produced a series of impressive boyhood triumphs from the now famous DICK DOYLE'S JOURNAL of 1840..... READ MORE about RICHARD DOYLE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 64379
London: Art and Technics, 1948. small 4to. cloth. 96 pages. First edition. Identical piece of tan cloth with gilt lettering ("P&C") mounted on the spine-foot, minor fading to front board, faint scrapes to rear board. Offsetting and light foxing to endpapers. Very good. Part of the series entitled "English Master of Black-and-White." In addition to a brief biography of Richard Doyle by Daria Hambourg, this volume includes a bibliography of Doyle's work and many illustrations..... READ MORE about RICHARD DOYLE, HIS LIFE AND WORK
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 97778
London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 73 pages plus plates. An exhibition catalogue with color plates. A fine copy. From the foreword by Sir Roy Strong: "The present exhibition, which examines the career of Richard Doyle, one of the most brilliant of Victorian painters of the fairy world, the centenary of whose death in 1983 it commemorates, will also prove, I hope, to have its serious side. The Doyle family..... READ MORE about RICHARD DOYLE AND HIS FAMILY, AN EXHIBITION
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 26628
Wilmington: du Pont, 1952. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 138 pages. B1-2109. First edition. With a map of the Brandywine area drawn by Frank Schoonover as endpapers. An interesting company history. Jacket is chipped with pieces missing. READ MORE about DU PONT, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN AMERICAN ENTERPRISE
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 28669
