The Illustrations of W. Heath Robinson
London: Werner Shaw, 1983. Robinson, W. Heath. First edition. Hardcover. 156 pages. More
London: Werner Shaw, 1983. Robinson, W. Heath. First edition. Hardcover. 156 pages. More
London: George Routledge & Co, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. 91 pages. 20 x 15 cm. Lovely gift book with contents clean and very fresh. Small book label of Bone & Son, 76 Fleet St. London. James Beattie was a Scottish philosopher and poet who spent his entire academic career as..... More
London: Np, 1797. Color stipple engraving image 27.5 x 21.5 cm., engraved by Vandenburg. Nee Lady Diana Spencer, an English noblewoman and painter, she was introduced to art by Sir Joshua Reynolds, a friend of the family. She was a highly gifted artist who was able to use her scandalous..... More
Toulouse: Chez L'Autor, 1897. First edition. Wraps. xxxiii pages. 25.5 x 16 cm. 28 tinted plates (sanguine). Text in French. Presents work of principal Belgian artists of the period. Front cover chipped at fore-edge and lower extremities. More
London: C. W. Beaumont, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 32 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Frontispiece plus two additional full page color lithographs, with additional color lithograph decorations in the text. Bright, very fresh copy. More
Paris: Editions Philibert, 1956. Becat, Paul-Emile. First edition. Hardcover. 9.5 x 6 cm. Complete deck of cards, No. 2072 of 12,000. Le Florentin is a particularly interesting series because, as is traditional with playing cards, the images are reversible so every card in the royal suite has two interpretations depending..... More
New York: Japan Society, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 35 (3) pages. 32 x 21 cm. 1000 copies printed for the Japan Society. Tipped in and full page plates in color, printed in red and black. An attempt to introduce No Plays to a Western audience. Very bright, fresh copy. More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1989. leather_bound. 128 pages. 27.5 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 53 of 550 signed by Beckett and Robert Ryman. The letterpress type is set by hand in 12 pt. English Monotype Bodoni 357 by Julia Ferrarie and Dan Carr at Golgonooza Letter Foundry with..... More
London: Faber And Faber, (1929). First English language edition. Hardcover. 191 (2) pages. 19 x 14.5 cm. Published from the original French sheets. Critical essays on Joyce's "Finnegans Wake. Beckett, in Joyce's company at the time, and his essay (the first of the essays here published, by virtue of the..... More
New York: Walker, 1960. Hardcover. 64 pages. Illustrated. Marks. More
NY: Walker, 1960. Hardcover. 64 pages. Illustrated. Marks. More
London: William Heinemann, 1920. First edition. Boards. 320 pages. 20 x 14.5 cm. Two bookplates one armorial in colors (Vincent LLoyd Russell). Endpaper toning., spine slightly faded. More
London: John Lane, 1897. Beerbohm, Max. First edition. Hardcover. 53 pages. 16.5 x 13 cm. Number One of the Bodley Booklets printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press in Springfield, Mass. BOMBACE A16. Front cover of the pictorial wrappers chipped at edges with some loss. Interior clean, housed in..... More
New York: Knopf, 1943. 1st American edition. Boards. 37 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. Printed by Peter Beilenson at the Walpole Printing Office. The Rede Lecture of 1943 delivered at Cambridge University. More
London: William Heinemann, 1922. Beerbohm, Max. First edition. Hardcover. VII pages in text. 26 x 19.5 cm. Twenty three tipped-in color plates on card stock with printed tissue guards, including the frontispiece. Beerbohm notes, "Byron, Disraeli, and Rossetti -- these seem to me the three most interesting men that England..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1922. Beerbohm, Max. First edition. Hardcover. VII pages in text. 26 x 19.5 cm. Twenty three tipped-in color plates on card stock with printed tissue guards, including the frontispiece. Beerbohm notes, "Byron, Disraeli, and Rossetti -- these seem to me the three most interesting men that England..... More
Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 68 pages. 17 1/2 x 11 cm. Printed for the Goudy Centennial. One of 1250 copies. More
New York: Distaff Side, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 58 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition one of 300 signed by Goudy on front free endpaper. Title page portrait reproduced from a wood engraving by Charles. E. Pont. 8 unnumbered pages of plates & portraits. More
Eugene: Univ. of Oregon Books, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 305 pp. Illustrated. Subject Index. Index, Printers and Publishers. As the author notes, "this is substantially a new book, though built on his (Douglas C. McMurtie) accomplishment." This book describes 1,521 imprints, 962 additional titles to the 589 located by McMurtrie..... More
Toronto: McClellandand Stewart, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 224 pages. Over 200 illustrations with more than half in color. Bibliography. Index. A panorama of Canadian art complemented with descriptions from contemporary travel literature, diaries and letters. A good survey of the topic. More
London: Heim Gallery, 1990. First edition. Paperback. 112 pages. 9 x 9". 39 color plates with detailed descriptive text. More
Paris: Editions Albert Levy, 1928. First edition. Boards. Folio, 49 x 38 cm. Title leaf: Twenty pochoir lithographs colored by Jean Saude after Benedictus with 86 Art Nouveau and Art Deco textile and wallpaper designs by an artist who was also a chemist who invented bullet proof glass. A stunning..... More
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1850. leather_bound. 83 pages. 27 x 22 1/2 cm. One of the early and important Pattern Books, and the author's first in that genre. This is the fifth: preceded by The American Builder; The Rudiments of Architecture; The Practical House Carpenter and The Practice of Architecture..... More
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1836. Third edition. leather_bound. 116 pages. 28 x 22 cm, Sixty plates, plus and additional, Plate A (not noted in "Contents of Plates") following Plate no. 43, and giving four designs for base mouldings. HITCHCOCK 137. Greek orders and exterior and interior trim, plans, elevations, and..... More
New York: MOMA, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 187 pages. Small 4to, 206 plates. Bibliography. More