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Order Nr. 25180 SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770-1860. With...

Abbey, J.R.

SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770-1860. With LIFE IN ENGLAND. With TRAVEL.

4 volumes, complete set.
Folkestone: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972. 4to. cloth. xx, 399; xxi, 428; xiii, 300; xiii, 301-675 pages. 4 volumes, complete set. Reprint of the first editions. Filled with bibliographical descriptions of the color plate books published in England during this period and containing many plates in color. Lacking the dust jackets. Some spotting and rubbing to spines. Very good. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770-1860. With LIFE IN ENGLAND....

Price: $600.00 Order nr. 25180

Adams II, Richard M. and Joshua B. Weisberg.

THE GATF PRACTICAL GUIDE TO COLOR MANAGEMENT.

Pittsburgh: GATFPress, (1998). large 8vo. pictorial paper covered boards. (xiv), 221, (5) pages. Illustrated in color throughout. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about THE GATF PRACTICAL GUIDE TO COLOR MANAGEMENT

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 99823

Adeline, Jules.

LES ARTS DE REPRODUCTION VULGARISES.

Paris: Librairies-Imprimeries Réunies, n.d. (circa 1894). 8vo. modern cloth with original stiff paper wrapper bound-in. (viii), x, 379, (3) pages. First edition. A manual of reproduction processes. Includes 140 illustrations within the text and examples of each process reproducing original designs of the author. Techniques discussed in this volume include dry point, lithography, heliogravure, and various color processes. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. A xerox of the entry for Adeline in..... READ MORE about LES ARTS DE REPRODUCTION VULGARISES

Price: $150.00 Order nr. 42765

(Audubon).

MR. AUDUBON AND MR. BIEN, AN EARLY PHASE IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY.

(Washington): National Museum of History and Technology, n.d. tall 8vo. self paper wrappers. (12) pages. Exhibition catalogue. Text by Peter Marzio. The only illustrations are on the front and back covers. A fine copy. READ MORE about MR. AUDUBON AND MR. BIEN, AN EARLY PHASE IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 65607

(Becker, Rudolf).

DER WERDEGANG EINES OFFSETDRUCKES IN 8 FARBEN.

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

Beckwith, Alice H.R.H.

VICTORIAN BIBLIOMANIA, THE ILLUMINATED BOOK IN 19TH-CENTURY BRITAIN.

Providence: Museum of Art, 1987. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 83 pages. An exhibition catalogue describing 66 books in great detail. Well-illustrated including some in color. A fine copy. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about VICTORIAN BIBLIOMANIA, THE ILLUMINATED BOOK IN 19TH-CENTURY BRITAIN

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 18190

(Beddington, G.E.).

CATALOGUE OF THE G.E. BEDDINGTON COLLECTION OF COLOUR-PRINTS.

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

Order Nr. 88566 ANIMALS & AUTHORS IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAS, A HEMPISPHERIC LOOK AT THE...

Been, Anita Cavagnaro.

ANIMALS & AUTHORS IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAS, A HEMPISPHERIC LOOK AT THE WRITING OF NATURAL HISTORY.

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 save 50% $22.50 Order nr. 88566

Bennett, Whitman.

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY COLOR PLATE BOOKS.

New York: Bennett Book Studios, 1949. 8vo. red cloth. xxi (1), 132, (2) pages. An important listing of American color plate books with well annotated descriptions. Extremities bumped and rubbed, light crease to top corner of front board, spine a bit loose from backing. Hinges cracked but still fairly sturdy. Evidence of readership. Red Stamp on title-page, minor wrinkling to top corner of leaves. "Apart from a certain restless human curiosity which makes book-hunting a...... READ MORE about A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY COLOR PLATE BOOKS

Price: $40.00 Order nr. 564

Bennett, Whitman.

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY COLOR PLATE BOOKS.

Ardsley, NY: Haydn Foundation, 1980. small 8vo. cloth. xxii, 132 and 8 page supplement. Reprint of the 1949 edition. One of the few bibliographies of the subject of American color plate books. A fine copy. READ MORE about A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY COLOR PLATE BOOKS

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 565

(Bignold).

THE BIGNOLD LIBRARY, CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF COLOUR-PLATE BOOKS,

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

Order Nr. 23016 JACOB BIGELOW'S AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY, 1817-1821, AN EXAMINATION OF THE ORIGIN,...

(Bird & Bull Press). Wolfe, Richard J.

JACOB BIGELOW'S AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY, 1817-1821, AN EXAMINATION OF THE ORIGIN, PRINTING, BINDING AND DISTRIBUTION OF AMERICA'S FIRST COLOR PLATE BOOK. WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE MANNER OF MAKING AND PRINTING ITS COLORED PLATES.

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1979. tall 8vo. quarter leather over decorated paper-covered boards. 123 pages. Limited to 300 numbered copies, this work (Taylor A21) is an excellent, scholarly study, finely printed by Henry Morris. A fine copy. With two original plates intended for Bigelow's book, American Medical Botany shows a plate that Bigelow had meant to use in his work but didn't. "The two illustrations mounted into this study comprise original, engraved..... READ MORE about JACOB BIGELOW'S AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY, 1817-1821, AN EXAMINATION OF THE ORIGIN, PRINTING,...

Price: $250.00 Order nr. 23016

Birren, Faber.

THE TEXTILE COLORIST.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, (1980). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages. Guide to color effects for all kinds of textiles. Bibliography and index. 16 color plates; black and white illustrations throughout. Wrappers tanned. READ MORE about THE TEXTILE COLORIST

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 108681

Order Nr. 36062 A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF BOTANICAL BOOKS, BEING THE FINEST COLOUR-PLATE BOOKS...

(Botany).

A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF BOTANICAL BOOKS, BEING THE FINEST COLOUR-PLATE BOOKS FROM THE CELEBRATED LIBRARY FORMED BY ROBERT DE BELDER.

London: Sotheby's, 1987. 4to. cloth, paper label on cover. 425, (11) pages. Fully describes 388 items. Well illustrated throughout, most are in color. A fine copy. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF BOTANICAL BOOKS, BEING THE FINEST COLOUR-PLATE BOOKS FROM THE...

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 36062

Buchanan, Handasyde.

NATURE INTO ART, A TREASURY OF GREAT NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS.

New York: Mayflower Books, (1979). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 220 pages. First U.S. edition. Minor chipping around jacket, else very good. With 60 pages of color and over 65 black-and- white illustrations. Illustrated with Coloured Plates. READ MORE about NATURE INTO ART, A TREASURY OF GREAT NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 30135

Buchner, Rudolf.

BUCHER UND MENSCHEN.

Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann Verlag, (1976). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages. A collection of essays on all aspects of the book and its production. Filled with illustrations in color of mostly modern work. READ MORE about BUCHER UND MENSCHEN

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 37506

Cartwright, H.M. and Robert Mackay.

ROTOGRAVURE, A SURVEY OF EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN METHODS.

Lyndon: MacKay Publishing Co., (1956). 4to. cloth. xvi, 303 pages. First edition. Spine lightly age-darkened, else a fine copy. A detailed study of this method of reproducing illustrations. Includes a history. In addition to the many illustrations there are two tipped-in full color labels printed in this method. READ MORE about ROTOGRAVURE, A SURVEY OF EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN METHODS

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 13747

(Children’s' Books). Rümann, Arthur.

ALTE DEUTSCHE KINDERBÜCHER, MIT BIBLIOGRAPHIE UND EINHUNDERTFÜNFZIG BILDTAFELN.

Vienna: Herbert Reichner, 1937. 8vo. cloth. 102+(1) pages plus 368 leaves of plates. First edition (Besterman 1306). Numbered (but not limited) edition. Boards faded and slightly warped, spine lightly sunned. Ink signature to front free endpaper, interior age-toned. The front panel of the original dust jacket (age-toned and edgeworn) is laid in. Bibliography of German children's literature, especially from the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. 368 entries. Color plates interspersed through introductory..... READ MORE about ALTE DEUTSCHE KINDERBÜCHER, MIT BIBLIOGRAPHIE UND EINHUNDERTFÜNFZIG BILDTAFELN

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 78163

Order Nr. 4475 THE DEMOCRATIC ART, CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY 1840-1900, PICTURES FOR A 19TH-CENTURY...

(Chromolithography). Marzio, Peter C.

THE DEMOCRATIC ART, CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY 1840-1900, PICTURES FOR A 19TH-CENTURY AMERICA.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1979. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 657 pages. First edition. Near fine. An excellent account of this specialized type of printing in 19th century America. With many textual illustrations and 128 plates, most of which are in full color. Also has a 12 page bibliography. READ MORE about THE DEMOCRATIC ART, CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY 1840-1900, PICTURES FOR A 19TH-CENTURY AMERICA

Price: $50.00 Order nr. 4475

(Color Printing).

THE BOOK OF SUNDAY PICTURES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN. NEW TESTAMENT.

London, England: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. 12mo. original cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped. (ii), 95+(1) pages. Text summarizes major thems of the New Testament. Color frontispiece and plates throughout text. Black and white engraved illustrations. Covers lightly faded, rubbed and scuffed. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Light tanning. Gilding on edges faded. READ MORE about THE BOOK OF SUNDAY PICTURES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN. NEW TESTAMENT

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 122923

(Color Printing). Burch, R.M.

COLOUR PRINTING AND COLOUR PRINTERS.

Introduction by Joan M. Friedman.
New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1981. 8vo. cloth. ix, xviii, 281, (5) pages. Introduction by Joan M. Friedman. Reprint of the 1910 first edition but the first edition with Friedman's introduction. A fine copy. Also contains additional entries to the bibliography. Chapters on Colour Printing in the 15th Century, 16th and 17th Centuries, 18th and 19th Centuries, Chromo-Lithography, Photo-Mechanical Colour Printing and Modern Colour Processes. Illustrated. READ MORE about COLOUR PRINTING AND COLOUR PRINTERS

Price: $35.00 Order nr. 35754

(Color Printing).

A CATALOGUE OF EARLY COLOUR PRINTING FROM CHIAROSCURO TO AQUATINT.

Culham, Oxford: Colin & Charlotte Franklin, 1977. 4to. cloth. (viii), 73 pages. A bookseller's catalogue which is more a reference tool in studying the different processes of color printing than a sales catalogue. With a number of full color plates. READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF EARLY COLOUR PRINTING FROM CHIAROSCURO TO AQUATINT

Price: $125.00 Order nr. 25344

(Color Printing).

CATALOGUE OF EXHIBITIONS OF BRITISH COLOURED BOOKS, 1738-1898.

Birmingham: British Printing Machinery Assoc. 1980. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 139, (3) pages. An excellent catalogue with historical information and illustrations in color. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF EXHIBITIONS OF BRITISH COLOURED BOOKS, 1738-1898

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 2957

Order Nr. 98025 A CHRONOLOGY OF BOOKS WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS OR DECORATIONS MAINLY RELIEF OR...

(Color Printing).

A CHRONOLOGY OF BOOKS WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS OR DECORATIONS MAINLY RELIEF OR PLANAR COLOUR PRINTED. MAINLY OF THE THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

London: N. Waddleton, 1980. 4to. vinyl covers, spiral bound. (ii), 225 pages with index. Third edition. Lists hundreds of titles. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. With a T.L.s. from the Waddleton to Bridson tipped-in. READ MORE about A CHRONOLOGY OF BOOKS WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS OR DECORATIONS MAINLY RELIEF OR PLANAR COLOUR...

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 98025

Order Nr. 125736 A CHRONOLOGY OF BOOKS WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS OR DECORATIONS MAINLY RELIEF...

(Color Printing).

A CHRONOLOGY OF BOOKS WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS OR DECORATIONS MAINLY RELIEF OR PLANAR COLOUR PRINTED. MAINLY OF THE THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

London: N. Waddleton, 1980. 4to. vinyl covers, spiral bound. (ii), 172 pages. Second edition, revised. Lists hundreds of titles. Tipped-in letter from Waddleton to Gavin Bridson stating that this is no. 2 of only 10 copies sent out. Signed by Bridson on title page. Loosely inserted in back are pages of notes. READ MORE about A CHRONOLOGY OF BOOKS WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS OR DECORATIONS MAINLY RELIEF OR PLANAR COLOUR...

Price: $35.00 Order nr. 125736

Color Printing

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