New York: The Viking Press, 1980. small 4to. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 128 pages. Explains the process of reproducing color mechanically by the various printing processes. READ MORE about COLOR IN REPRODUCTION, THEORY AND TECHNIQUES FOR ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 22351
Procédés et recettes. Préface de V. Breton.
Paris: Les Soins de l'Auteu, 1903. 8vo. quarter morocco, cloth. xvi, 135+(1) pages, 7 plates. Procédés et recettes. Préface de V. Breton. Well-illustrated manual, in French. The seven plates show a variety of techniques and papers, including one that is embossed, several showing the three-color process, and two on colored paper. Contents somewhat spotted throughout. Crack at the half-title. Boards rubbed. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about NOUVEAU TRAITÉ SUR LES IMPRESSIONS MODERNES EN COULEURS
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 98671
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., (1954). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. vii, 424 pages. First printing of the revised edition. This edition contains 517 titles covering 700 volumes. Spine faded. Jacket price clipped. Some foxing of free endpaper. Essential reference book. READ MORE about ENGLISH BOOKS WITH COLOURED PLATES 1790 TO 1860
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 15557
New York: E. Weyhe, 1935. 4to. polished cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. viii, 288 pages. First U.S. edition. Covers rubbed with some spotting. READ MORE about SOME ENGLISH BOOKS WITH COLOURED PLATES, THEIR POINTS, COLLATIONS AND VALUES. ART, SPORT,...
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 103792
Chicago: The Inland Printer Co., 1919. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 83 pages. Later printing of the first edition. Illustrated but no color. READ MORE about DESIGN AND COLOR IN PRINTING
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 49737
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1972). oblong 4to. paper covered boards, paper cover label, slipcase. 56, followed by 24 plates, (2) pages. Parts adapted from the author's previous books of 1940, 1943, and 1947. Plates printed in Switzerland. A treatise on calligraphy and painting of the Ten Bamboo Studio, including discussion of Chinese writing and ink, seals, woodcuts and two-colour prints, and a great deal of general and technical information on the subject of Chinese..... READ MORE about CHINESE COLOR PRINTS FROM THE TEN BAMBOO STUDIO
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 125268
Berlin: Otto v.Holten, 1927. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, uncut edges. 12 pages + 5 leaves of plates in color and black and white. Printed in an edition limited to 150 numbered copies. Surveys the history of German engravings made for the service of commercial art. Begins with the fifteenth-century engraver Master ES, arguably the most influential early German print-maker, and works through the nineteenth century with a general history. Tipped in illustrations include a reproduction..... READ MORE about ENTWICKLUNG DER DEUTSCHEN GEBRAUCHSGRAPHIK
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 77808
N.P. Privately printed, 1900. large folio. publisher's half brown morocco with cloth-covered boards, spine gilt, top edge gilt. (ii), 32, (2) pages, 5 plates. First edition, one of a few copies printed by Vaughan's son in memory of his father (St Bride Catalogue p.921). W.E. Vaughan 1825 - ca. 1900) was a Brighton print dealer, the largest dealer south of London in the last half of the 19th century. His reminiscences deal with his business..... READ MORE about AUTOBIOGRAPHICA, WITH A GOSSIP ON THE ART OF PRINTING IN COLOURS
Price: $950.00 Order nr. 123029
N.P. Privately printed, 1900. large folio. later cloth, top edge gilt. (ii), 32, (2) pages, 5 plates. First edition, one of a few copies printed by Vaughan's son in memory of his father (St Bride Catalogue p.921). W.E. Vaughan 1825 - ca. 1900) was a Brighton print dealer, the largest dealer south of London in the last half of the 19th century. His reminiscences deal with his business and the aesthetic aspects of hand-coloured prints..... READ MORE about AUTOBIOGRAPHICA, WITH A GOSSIP ON THE ART OF PRINTING IN COLOURS
Price: $1,200.00 Order nr. 123955
Toutes les Opérations Lithographiques sur Pierre et sur Zinc, Autographie Reports, Gravure, Chromolithographie, Photolithographie, Phototype et Procédés divers pour Reproduire les Écritures et les Dessins au Moyen de la Pierre, Du Zinc, etc.
Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 1932. 12 mo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 697 pages followed by 11 folding lithograph plates. Toutes les Opérations Lithographiques sur Pierre et sur Zinc, Autographie Reports, Gravure, Chromolithographie, Photolithographie, Phototype et Procédés divers pour Reproduire les Écritures et les Dessins au Moyen de la Pierre, Du Zinc, etc. Reprint of the first edition (St. Bride Catalogue , p. 930). Five of the eleven plates are supplied in facsimile. READ MORE about DESSINATEUR ET DE IMPRIMEUR LITHOGRAPHE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 97853
Traitant de Toutes les Opérations Lithographiques sur Pierre et sur Zinc de L'Autographie, des Reports, de la Gravure, de la Chromolithographie, de la Photolithographie, de la Phototype et tous les Procédés connus jusqu' à ce jour pour Reproduire les Écritures et les Dessins au Moyen de la Pierre, Du Zinc, etc.
Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 1891. 12 mo. modern marbled paper with paper spine label and with original paper wrappers bound-in. xx, 360 pages ; (iv), 336, followed by 52 pages of advertisements. Traitant de Toutes les Opérations Lithographiques sur Pierre et sur Zinc de L'Autographie, des Reports, de la Gravure, de la Chromolithographie, de la Photolithographie, de la Phototype et tous les Procédés connus jusqu' à ce jour pour Reproduire les Écritures et les..... READ MORE about NOUVEAU MANUEL COMPLET DU DESSINATEUR ET DE L'IMPRIMEUR LITHOGRAPHE
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 97848
New York: Arno Press, 1979. 8vo. cloth. (iv), viii, 157 pages. A photo-facsimile reprint of the Berlin, R. Oppenheim, 1885 edition (Roosens & Luc Salu 9671). Part of a series entitled The sources of modern photography. 15 text illustrations. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about DIE PHOTOGRAPHIE FARBIGER GEGENSTÄNDE
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 98721
Basel: n.p., n.d. (circa 1928). 12mo. self paper wrappers. 17 pages. An exhibition at the Gewerbemuseum in Basel. READ MORE about AUSSTELLUNG DIE FARBIGE REPRODUKTION
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 48466
Berlin: Deutscher Drucker, 1936. 8vo. cloth. 96 pages and 42 full-page color plates. A guide to the process of book illustration in color. The plates demonstrate the process of color separation by showing an illustration in full color followed by a number of plates in the hues that make up the final print. READ MORE about MODERNEN OFFSETVERFAHREN EINE ARBEITSBESCHREIBUNG MIT REZEPTVORSCHRIFTEN UND ANGABE DER...
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 4298
Amsterdam: Kosmos, 1939. 4to. cloth. 150, (3), (116), (16) pages with 58 separate plates. A company history and description of color printing using photographic means. Filled with full color illustrations. Covers rubbed. Small stain on spine. READ MORE about KLEUREN. DE ONTWIKKELING EN TOEPASSING DER KLEURENFOTOGRAFIE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 102525
1897. 8vo. modern marbled paper wrappers, paper spine label. In Journal of the Society of Arts, Volume 45. Bound with George McCulloch's "Lithography as a Mode of Artistic Expression. Discussion." Pages 278-272 and 272-278. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Bridson has bound in a special title page and xeroxes of the front cover and some pages of advertisements. READ MORE about " REPRODUCTION OF COLOUR BY PHOTOGRAPHIC METHODS."
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 98132
4 volumes, complete set.
London: Privately printed at the Curwen Press, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957. 4to. cloth, spine labels, top edges gilt, leather spine labels, dust jackets. xx,399; xxi,428; xiii,300; xiii,301-675 pages. 4 volumes, complete set. First editions, limited to 500, 400, and 400 copies respectively. Filled with bibliographical descriptions of the color plate books published in England during this period and containing many plates in color. The great reference set of the subject. Jacket of volume one is..... READ MORE about SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770-1860. With LIFE IN ENGLAND....
Price: $1,250.00 Order nr. 15853
4 volumes, complete set.
London: Privately printed at the Curwen Press, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957. 4to. polished cloth, top edges gilt, leather spine labels. xx,399; xxi,428; xiii,300; xiii,301-675 pages. 4 volumes, complete set. First editions, limited to 500, 400, and 400 copies respectively. Filled with bibliographical descriptions of the color plate books published in England during this period and containing many plates in color. The printing by the Curwen Press of these first editions is far superior to the..... READ MORE about SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770-1860. With LIFE IN ENGLAND....
Price: $1,200.00 Order nr. 71437
7 Volumes.
New York, and Philadelphia, NY & PA: J. J. Audubon and J. B. Chevalier, [1839] 1840-1844. 8vo. full morocco bindings with gilt ornamentation around covers, five raised bands, gilt on spine, marbled edges, later cloth slipcases. variously paginated. 7 Volumes. First octavo edition. Table of contents in each volume, Introductory comments by Audubon precede text in volumes I and II. List of subscribers follows text in all volumes. Index follows text in Volume VII. Organized..... READ MORE about THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, FROM DRAWINGS MADE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEIR TERRITORIES
Price: $67,500.00 Order nr. 131435
Leipzig: Rudolph Becker, n.d. 4to. paper portfolio. (4) pages followed by (15) loose leaves of illustration. The firm of Rudolph Becker illustrates the stages of offset printing with 15 color specimens. An image is taken through the process, with examples of each color addition (printed wholly in that color and then printed with that color added to the mix). An introduction to the specimens is included. In German. Tear in portfolio at top. READ MORE about DER WERDEGANG EINES OFFSETDRUCKES IN 8 FARBEN
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 61885
Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum, 1959. 8vo. library pamphlet holder with original stiff paper wrappers bound in. iv, 31+(1) pages. Catalogue of the collection of color-engravings belonging to Gerald E. Beddington (1867-1958). Preface by the museum director. Essay by S.W. Grose. List of abbreviations. Catalogue organized alphabetically by artist. Inscription of previous owner on front board. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE G.E. BEDDINGTON COLLECTION OF COLOUR-PRINTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 108723
with Cataloguing Records for Selected Titles prepared by Burton Van Edwards.
Providence: The John Carter Brown Library, 2004. 4to. cloth. xxvi, 184, (3) pages. with Cataloguing Records for Selected Titles prepared by Burton Van Edwards. First edition. Based on an exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library in 1998-99, this richly illustrated work presents the full range of New World animals as recorded by early naturalists. The book deals with North American, Caribbean, and Latin American species as presented in various narrative contexts, and comments on..... READ MORE about ANIMALS & AUTHORS IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAS, A HEMPISPHERIC LOOK AT THE WRITING OF...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 88566
London: Sotheby's, 1971. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 52 pages. Prices realized inserted. Illustrated. Fabric tape markers on spine. READ MORE about THE BIGNOLD LIBRARY, CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF COLOUR-PLATE BOOKS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 25629
With a Foreword by Henry Morris.
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1996. tall 8vo. quarter dark blue morocco with cloth sides, leather spine label, slipcase. 79, (3) pages. With a Foreword by Henry Morris. Limited to 160 numbered copies (Berger A59). A fine copy. Printed by Henry Morris by hand at his Bird & Bull Press on Zerkall mouldmade paper and bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery. Gaylord Schanilec has become one of premier wood engravers in this country and is especially noted..... READ MORE about MY COLORFUL CAREER
Price: $525.00 Order nr. 45486
New York: Privately printed at the De Vinne Press, 1892. 8vo. cloth, later slipcase. 36 pages. S-K 4985. First edition, limited to 130 copies. Contains a prefatory note by Beverly Chew, a portrait of Payne, a facsimile reproduction of one of his bills for binding and nine plates in gold and other colors showing eight Payne bindings. These plates were executed by E. Bierstadt using the Bierstadt Artotype System involving the use of collotype gelatine..... READ MORE about ROGER PAYNE AND HIS ART, A SHORT ACCOUNT OF LIFE AND WORK AS A BINDER
Price: $750.00 Order nr. 38819
