Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 149 pages. Folio, 51 x 36 cm. With twelve color plates, 192 black and white text illustrations. Limited edition, copy 384 of 1000. This work presents an exhaustive study of how two twelfth-century Winchester bibles were designed and produced. Appendices. Tables. Indexes..... More
Berlin: Verlag Von Georg Reimer, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. 268 pages. Folio, 37 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 285 of 500. 100 illustrated mostly color plates on heavy stock, many with more than one image per plate, and all are color lithographs. An elegant production, backstrip and front covers..... More
Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1946. Hardcover. 315 pages. Limited edition, one of 220 on sur velin de Rives with black and white etchings by Pierre Watrin, both full paged and within the text. Interior fresh and clean. The novel presents the classic Christian story: the heavenly war between angels led by the..... More
Paris: Aux dépens d'un amateur, 1959. Hardcover. 113 pages. Folio, 33 x 25 cm. Copy 227 of 280 on velin de Rives. 39 black and white lithographs. Illustrated by Bonnard in 1928 and printed later here by Fernand Mourlot. Interior contents bright and fresh. Test in French. More
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 238 pages. 29 x 21.5 cm. 86 black and white plates. The Romanesque period in Spain a fusion of French, Oriental and native influences of architecture in the Middle Ages. Index. More
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 599 pages. 28.5 x 18.5 cm. Approximately 450 halftones. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. More
Boston: A.A. Childs & Co., 1869. First edition. Hardcover. 14 leaves. 19 x 15 cm. 10 mounted albumen photographs of paintings. Printed by Rand, Avery & Frye. Published to accompany the exhibition of paintings of the "Nine Muses" in 1869 in New York by Italian painter Joseph Fagnani, who used..... More
Paris: Dunod, 1934. Duxieme Edition. Hardcover. XV, 247 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Eight full page color lithograph plates, 53 text illustrations. Originally published 1913 that expands upon the author’s important brochure, Les premiers elements de la science de la couleur (Mulhouse, 1884) which had helped spread knowledge of Maxwell..... More
London: Winsor And Newton, 1885. Third edition. Hardcover. (viii) 207 (ii) pages. 19 x 14 cm. Four chromolithograph plates. The author George Field (1777?--1854) was a manufacturer of pigments and author of works on chromatic science; he was the subject of an exhibition and catalogue at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge..... More
London: Geo. Romney, 1872. Hardcover. [x] 58 [20] pages. 18 x 12.5 cm. Color frontispiece, six chromolithograph plates, one wood engraving. The 20 pages represent publisher ads at rear. Originally published about 1866, this was a long popular manual. The Bacon manual stresses binary and triadic color harmonies unencumbered by..... More
Paris: Hachette, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. (6) 273 (3) pages. 18 x 11.5 cm. Sixteen plates hors-texte, 36 wood engravings and eight color lithographs. BIRREN 38. Text in French. Interior clean and bright. Raised bands, spines richly gilt in arabesques, spine lettered in gilt, covers decorated in blind. More
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons & Metheun And Co, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. XL, 319 (1) pages. 26 x 18.5 cm. Connoisseur's Library reviews miniature paintings from origins to the 19th century. Forty two full page plates with tissue guards. Very fresh bright copy. Index to Plates. Errata..... More
New York: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1927. Field, Robert. First edition. Hardcover. 202 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Limited edition, one of 325 copies. Fifty three full page plates with descriptive text. With a "Descriptive Catalogue Of Field's Works." Diane Foskett, author of A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters (1972), calls..... More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. 163 pages. 31.5 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 211 of 325 bound in Lady Margaret Critchton-Stuart Hand-Loom linen. Title page printed in red and black. Multitude of full page miniatures with multiple images per plate plus lettered tissue guards. Index..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1929. First edition. leather_bound. 406 pages. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Presents Doric, Ionic and Corinthian styles in various Roman and Hellenistic periods, plus examples of temple, theatres and town planning. 24 black and white plates, 134 black and white figures. Appendices and General Index. Dulwitch College..... More
New York: Japan Society, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 195 pages. 30 x 26.5 cm. Japanese, Chinese and Korean collections with illustrations in color and black and white. Contributions by Richard M. Barnhart and Christine M.E. Guth. Distributed by Harry Abrams. Index. More
Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1753 & 1759. First Editions. leather_bound. XVI-429-[11], [4]-480-[8], XVI-402-[6], VIII-302-[24]. 21.5 X 14 cm. Title pages printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece by Lebas and two headpieces by Lemire after Decamps. 168 portraits by Ficquet, Gaillard, Legrand E.A. after Descamps, Eisen and Campion showing I.A. Quinten..... More