Villa Park, IL: Graphic Chemical & Ink Co., 1973. oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 37 pages. Dated January 1973. With ink specimens and even tipped-in paper specimens. Loosely inserted is an errata sheet. READ MORE about PRINTMAKER'S MATERIALS
Price: $42.50 Order nr. 109445
(Dublin, Ireland): Irish Academic Press, (1989). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxx, 301+(1) pages. First edition. Forewords by Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, John O'Reilly, Peyton Skipwith, and James White. Table of contents, list of illustrations, preface, acknowledgments, introduction. Two appendices, endnotes, bibliography, photographic credits, index. Frontispiece drawing of Clarke. 48 color plates and 190 black and white illustrations. Noted as the first substantial biography of Clarke and critical analysis of his works, fusing Celtic Revivalism with Arts and..... READ MORE about THE LIFE AND WORKS OF HARRY CLARKE
Price: $185.00 Order nr. 124021
London, UK: (Books and Things), 2003. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 126 pages. This is a detailed list of the works of Harry Clarke throughout the years. Presentation from the author to a bookseller dated the day of publication. It includes numerous color, and black & white photos throughout of both the artist's work and pictures of the books in which his work can be found. There is a black & white frontispiece self portrait sketch..... READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST OF THE WORK OF HARRY CLARKE
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 125304
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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Stamford: Overbrook Press, The, 1949. 8vo. paper wrappers, paper cover label. 32 pages. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. This copy inscribed by the author. Spine lightly sunned. READ MORE about PROGRESS IN THE GRAPHIC ARTS AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY IN CHICAGO ... ON THE...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 132590
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 Order nr. 1448
Stamford: Overbrook Press, The, 1950. 8vo. paper wrappers. 32 pages. Second edition. Printed by the Overbrook Press in an edition of 1000 copies in 1950. READ MORE about PROGRESS IN THE GRAPHIC ARTS AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY IN CHICAGO ... ON THE...
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 1454
(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
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 126445
(Pasadena, CA): Clinker Press, The, n.d. small folio. Broadside. Privately printed by Andre Chaves of The Clinker Press. This features an illustration and quote by William Blake. READ MORE about NO BIRD SOARS TOO HIGH, IF HE SOARS WITH HIS OWN WINGS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 134759
London: Vizetelly, (ca. 1885). large 8vo. original quarter cloth with decorated paper-covered boards. 63, (3) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 300 numbered copies on hand-made paper. Published by Henry Vizitelly (1820-1894), a pioneer of the English illustrated press, who issued numerous translations of 18th century French fiction, and was imprisoned for three months, in1889, for a translation of the more contemporary Emile Zola. Illustrated with six engravings in sanguine by C.N. Cochin (1715-1790)..... READ MORE about THE ORIGIN OF THE GRACES, ILLUSTRATED WITH THE ORIGINAL COPPERPLATE ENGRAVINGS AFTER THE DESIGNS...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 72293
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...
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 136847
Amsterdam: Fr. Van Crombrugghe, 1890. 8vo. later cloth. xii, 319 (columns), (2) pages. Fifth edition of this bibliography of 18th century illustrated books. Revised and enlarged by Le Baron Roger Portalis. First volume is stained internally. Volume two has wrinkling to pages at bottom front corner throughout. READ MORE about GUIDE DE L'AMATEUR DE LIVRES A GRAVURES DU XVIII SIECLE
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 25165
(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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Seconde Édition
Paris: Chez P. Rouquette, Libraire, 1873. 8vo. half leather, cloth, gilt rules and title on spine, five raised bands, top edge gilt. xv, (i), 273, (3) pages. Seconde Édition. Text in French. Limited to an edition of 500 copies printed on Hollande paper. Bibliography of books either printed and illustrated in France, printed in the French language, or illustrated by a French artist. Former library copy with the usual markings. Previous owner's bookplate on front..... READ MORE about GUIDE DE L'AMATEUR DE LIVRES A VIGNETTES DU XVIIIE SIÈCLE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 95174
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 Order nr. 22046
From Drawings and Paintings by Charles Dana Gibson, Frederic Remington, Jessie Willcox Smith, Maxfield Parrish, A.B. Frost, F.X. Leyendecker, W.T. Smedley and others.
New York: P.F. Collier & Son, n.d. (early 20th century). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 71 pages. From Drawings and Paintings by Charles Dana Gibson, Frederic Remington, Jessie Willcox Smith, Maxfield Parrish, A.B. Frost, F.X. Leyendecker, W.T. Smedley and others. Contains 138 black-and-white illustrations of the proofs, with an index. Covers show wear, with writing in pen at the head of both covers, as well as drawings in pen, pencil, and crayon on the rear..... READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF COLLIER'S ARTIST PROOFS
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 104280
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
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 103919
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
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 129219
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. small 4to. cloth with dust jacket. 240 pages. First edition. This prestigious work presents a detailed description of the various editions of works by William Morris, in which one or more artists have illustrated the text. Each bibliographic entry, in addition to supplying comprehensive information on the physical appearance of the title, emphasizes the artistic aspects of the particular book. The author has paid special attention to each..... READ MORE about ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS OF THE WORKS OF WILLIAM MORRIS IN ENGLISH
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 96190
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
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 60089
New York: Viking Press, 1957. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 308 pages, with 31 additional plates. First U.S. edition. 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 of his life from his birth in 1872 until the beginning of 1907. Some chipping of jacket along top..... READ MORE about INDEX TO THE STORY OF MY DAYS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 115250
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
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137123
New York: The New York Public Library, (1967). large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 57 pages. First edition. Exhibition catalogue listing 268 items with occasional black and white illustrations. Extensive introduction by Donald Oenslager. A fine copy. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about EDWARD GORDON CRAIG, ARTIST OF THE THEATRE 1872-1966
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 56121
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 398, (2) pages. First American edition. Jacket lightly soiled, else near fine. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Table of contents, list of illustrations, introductory notes and acknowledgments, endnotes, general bibliography, index, biographical sketch of the author. Black and white illustrations. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about GORDON CRAIG THE STORY OF HIS LIFE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 123998
Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1962. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 98, (6) pages. 379 items are described in this exhibition. Many illustrations. Writing in ink on back cover. READ MORE about GORDON CRAIG ET LE RENOUVELLEMENT DU THEATRE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 6218
