London: J. Cooper, printer to the Royal Academy, 1798. 4to, 35, [36-44]pp. Disbound. Slightly dusty but very good. § A fascinating glimpse of the famous and fashionable artists whose works were being shown at the RA. In this issue we find 1054 works, followed by the list of artists locating..... More
London: B. McMillan printer to the Royal Academy, [1801]. 4to, 37 [1]pp. Disbound. Slightly dusty but very good. A few manuscript checkmarks from a visitor at the time. § A fascinating glimpse of the famous and fashionable artists whose works were being shown at the RA. More
London: B. McMillan printer to the Royal Academy, [1802]. 4to, 41, [1]pp. Disbound. Slightly dusty but very good. § A fascinating glimpse of the famous and fashionable artists whose works were being shown at the RA. More
1804. London: B. McMillan printer to the Royal Academy, [1804]. 4to, 41, [1]pp. Disbound. Slightly dusty but very good. § A fascinating glimpse of the famous and fashionable artists whose works were being shown at the RA. More
1858. [Ashby de la Zouch: 1858] 4to, viii, 11pp. With a frontispiece and 54 lithographic plates. Original illustrated boards, red cloth backstrip, a bit worn and dusty but very good. § The object of the Anastatic Society was to delineate remains of antiquities, such as ancient buildings, sepulchral monuments, fonts..... More
1873. Vienna: R. v. Waldheim, n.d. [circa 1873]. Folio, one pictorial title-page, one plate list, and 80 color lithograph plates, heightened in foils, printed to recto only. Disbound leaves housed in a half- brown cloth portfolio with marbled paper boards and green cloth ties. Portfolio splitting at joints and frayed..... More
2014. California, U.S.A., 2014. 20 x 19.5 inches. Colored pencil and graphite on paper. Loosely mounted to illustration board. Verso has a label with the artists contact information. Fine condition. § Yukimi Sasago Annand is a calligrapher and text artist living and working in Southern California. Annand studied communication design..... More
1905. New York: John Lane, 1905. Large 4to, 367, xcvipp. With hundreds of illustrations in the text including several in color and on separate leaves. Original olive green cloth lettered in green, backstrip faded to brown. § A scarce and massive compilation of art of the period including crafts. Baldry..... More
1920. [London]: R.A. Walker, 34 Oakley Crescent S.W., 1920. 4to, 7 pp., frontispiece. Original printed wrappers as issued. Unopened. Bookplate of Nina Ranger Herzog. § Limited to 200 copies numbered and signed in purple ink by the author. Derry describes, page by page, the contents of a scrapbook containing sketches..... More
1900. Berlin and New York: Bruno Hessling, n.d. [circa 1900]. Folio, title-page, 36 b&w heliotypes tinted with yellow. Disbound plates housed in a quarter blue cloth portfolio with beige paper boards printed in raw umber with floral illustrations, and cloth ties. Portfolio is a bit rubbed around the edges, some..... More
1971. San Francisco, CA: John Howell - Books, 1971. Folio, unpaginated. Illustrations in black white throughout. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to backstrip and upper cover. Covers faintly scuffed, text block edges spotted, internally a fine copy. § A comprehensive, fully illustrated catalogue of Borein's engravings with an index of..... More
1877. [San Francisco: Edward Bosqui, 1877]. San Francisco: John Windle, 1980. Folio, [64] pp. 10 color plates with text. A fine copy in sheets and portfolio as issued. § Limited to 40 copies for sale in sheets; this exact facsimile of the first California ampelography to show the grapes in..... More
1865. (circa 1865-81). Wood engraving, on single half-sheet of handmade Arches paper 19”, engraved area 4 x 2 1/4”, fine archival frame; a fine impression. § Edition unknown; a lovely original wood engraving, designed by Edward Burne-Jones and engraved probably by William Morris. Burne-Jones prepared some seventy drawings largely intended..... More
1418. Vanity Fair: March 14, 1874, and February 1, 1879. Four leaves 10 1/4 x 15”, two color lithograph portraits, and three pages of text. Plates are bright with some creases and minor chips to edges, pages with text are chipped and stained with old pieces of tape still affixed;..... More
1929. Grand Rapids: Dean-Hicks, 1929. Large 4to, (xii), 438 pp. Frontispiece, and with more than nine hundred b/w illustrations. § First edition. A concise account of the development of English furniture and woodwork from the Gothic of the fifteenth century to the Classic Revival of the early nineteenth century... More
1928. New York: The Architectural Book Company, Paul Wenzel & Maurice Krakow, 1928. Folio, vii, 55 plates printed to recto only with captions, with one additional signed etching, and decorative title page. Quarter rust red cloth portfolio with pink paper boards repeating the design of the title-page printed in black..... More
1890. Richmond: c.1890. Oblong 8vo. 3 chromolithographic albums in 1, with a total of 18 bright, colorful pages of cigarette cards but without four full-page prints mentioned in other sets. § A wonderful collection of colorful cigarette cards produced for the Duke Co. The images are too good to be..... More
1804. Birmingham: by the Author, 1804. 12mo, xi, [i] 184 pp. Engraved portrait, with the half-title. Occasional spotting; expertly rebacked; still an attractive, untrimmed copy in the original drab boards. § First edition of this collection of provincial verse by John Collins (1742-1808), the actor, poet and sometime bookseller who..... More
1856. New York: Redfield [1856]. Oblong folio, 8pp. plus 30 plates. Black buckram with illustration tipped onto top and bottom boards; illustrated throughout with plates from engravings by Felix Darley. Significant foxing to some plates, covers worn, some bumping to corners, chipping to edges. Very good. § First edition thus..... More
1615. Paris: Jean Millot, 1615. Sm. 8vo, vi, 325, (3) pp. Engraved title page followed by typographic title-page with woodcut vignette; headpieces and initials. Full polished calf gilt c.1900 with ribbon marker and earlier marbled endpapers. Calf a little rubbed, some scattered foxing but generally very good. Ownership inscription of..... More
1820. London: Taylor, 1820 (but later?). Folio, 16 x 12 1/2 inches (32 x 41 cm.). (2) pp., 16 text leaves, plus 26 colored aquatints. Later green limp wrappers, internally in good condition. Plates without discernible watermarks. Bookplate of William Ingraham Kip. § First edition (reprinted in 1844). Copy owned..... More
1931. Luxembourg: Privately Printed, n.d. [but Paris: Guibal? c.1931]. 4to, 214 pp. With 53 color pochoir illustrations. Original printed wrappers, binding cracked and shaken but just holding, wrappers unevenly sunned, internally fine. § Privately published in an unknown edition. Worldcat lists copies only at Yale and the Bibliothèque nationale de..... More
1825. Paris: Chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, [c. 1825 or earlier]. 64mo, (3 x 2 ins, 7 x 5 cms). With an engraved frontispiece and facing engraved title-page, [2] letterpress title verso blank, [3]-254pp. text. Original pink wrappers, printed label, worn, gently restored and enclosed in a box. § A...... More
1980. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1980. 8vo, xii , 114 pp.Very good in original blue cloth and Illustrated dust-jacket. § Bentley, BBS, p 469. In another study, Fairchild made a connection between George Lucas, Blake, and the films THX and American Graffiti. Bentley seems skeptical. More
1838. London, Henry G. Bohn. 1838. 8vo, xxvii, 243pp. Portrait frontispiece on India paper, 51 plates (complete, enclosed publisher's slip states that plate #18 was never engraved). Original green cloth with printed paper spine label, rubbed and worn. Pp.33-48 are missing but this is more than made up for by..... More
