Art Criticism
Temples Anciens Et Modernes; Ou Observations Historiques Et Critiques Sur Les Plus Celebres Monumens D'Architecture Grecques Et Gothique
London & Paris: Chez Musier, 1774. First edition. Hardcover. 347 [3] pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Seven engraved plates, foldouts, including the Pantheon, the Basilica of Saint Paul, Santa Sophia at Constantinople, Saint Peters and the Coliseum. The author, a sometime Jesuit, published this work under the pseudonym M.L.M. John..... More
European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists born in or Before 1865. A Summary Catalogue
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 535 pp. Volume I: Text, with a note to the catalogue and an Index. Volume II: Illustrations, four on each page, covering Italian, Spanish (including Portuguese), Icons, Russian, British and German (including Austrian, Czech,Danish, Hungarian, Swedish and Swiss) paintings. Volume..... More
Thomas Cole
New York: Watson Guptill, 1981. Cole, Thomas. First edition. Cloth. 84 pages. 29 x 27 cm. 32 color plates and 12 black and white. Bibliography. Index. More
Da Bellinia A Tintoretto; Dipinti dei Musei Civici di Padova dalla meta del Quattrocento ai primi del Seicento
Roma: Leonardo - De Luca, 1991. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 373 pages. 28.5 x 23 cm. 32 color plates and a 421 black and white photographs, all are printed on quality glossy stock. Seven chapters by scholars. Bibliography. Concordance. Index of Artists. Text in Italian. More
Painters of Reality The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy
NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. First edition. Paperback. 257 pages. 30 x 23 cm. Abundantly illustrated: black and white and color plates. Bibliography. Index. More
Rossetti And His Circle
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
Masterpieces of The Japanese Color Woodcut
Boston: Boston Book and Art Shop, 1957. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 174 pages. Voluminously illustrated, mostly in black and white with five full-page color, and two-tonedplates. Original German version printed by Urs-Graf Verlag; Bern, Switzerland. A survey and history of the Japanese color woodcut by a prominent, if now infamous..... More
What Is Art?; An Introduction To Painting, Sculpture And Architecture
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 386 pages. 29 x 23.5 cm. More than 460 illustrations in color and black and white. Glossary and Index. More
The Flowering of the Italian Renaissance
New York: Odyssey, 1965. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 384 pages. 312 illustrations, many in full-color. Glossary - Index. Bibliography. Maps. Translated by Jonathan Griffin. The author's purpose was "to bring to the fore certain facts that seem illuminating, such as the polarity of Padua and Urbino, the vogue for marquetry..... More
Le Teinturier Universel Echo Des Applications Des Matieres Colorantes Aux Arts Et A L'Industrie; De la teinture et de l'appret des etoffes, de la production et de la preparation des matieres tincloriales, de l'impression et de la fabrication des papiers peints -- Tannage et coloration des cuirs
Paris: Au Bureau du Journal, 1860-1863. First editions. Original Wraps. 192, 192, 192 pages in text. Small folio, 30.5 x 22.5 cm. First to third years -- 72 issues in 3 volumes [April 1, 1860 - March 15, 1863]. More than 100 tipped-in or mounted color specimens of various dyes..... More
Rembrandt and the Italian Renaissance
New York: New York Univ. Press, 1964. Rembrandt, H. van Rijn. First edition. Hardcover. 225 pages. 181 black and white plates. Bibliography. Index. First volume of The Wrightsman Lectures, New York University Institute of Fine Arts. The author discusses the influences of the great Italians of the 15th and 16th..... More
The Roots & Routes of Art in the 20th Century
New York: Horizon, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 252 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Bibliography. Index of Names in the text. A narrative guide-map to the key moments of avant-garde art and activity in the 20th century, surveying the movements and the intellectual ferment which formed them. More
A Treatise On Landscape Painting and Effect In Water Colours: From The First Rudiments To The Finished Picture: With Examples In Outline, Effect, and Colouring
London: S. and J. Fuller, 1814. First edition. Hardcover. 32 pages in text. 28.5 x 46 cm. Second issue, 24 soft ground etchings, 16 uncolored aquatints, and sixteen hand colored aquatints, and sixteen hand colored etchings on gray backgrounds. Some pale foxing to the soft ground etchings, rubbing to backstrip..... More
Dessins Venitiens Du Dix-Huitieme Siecle
Zurich & Milan: Fretz & Wasmuth & Editions D'Art, 1947. First edition. Boards. Unpaginated. Folio, 40 x 28 cm.. Full page color plates.Text in French. Limited edition. copy 91 of unknown limitation. Backstrip darkened, slightly chipped. More
French Architects and Sculptors of the XVIIIth Century
London: George Bell, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. 217 pages. 32 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 15 of 200. More than fifty illustrations. Index. A survey of architects and sculptors by the author who most "forcibly influenced the art they practiced." Backstrip chipped at extremities and darkened. More
The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Jim and Ron
New York: Grossman, 1970. Dine, Jim. Hardcover. Approximately 120 pages in text with poems by Ron Padgett and illustrations in black and white by Jim Dine. The first edition of 30 copies published by Cape Galliard Press, London was signed and numbered by Padgett and Dine, and contained an original..... More
Charlot Murals in Georgia
Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1945. Charlot, Jean. First edition. Hardcover. 40 pages in text. 178illustrations, some in color. Acknowledgement by Inez Cumming. Introduction by Lamar Dodd. Commentary by Jean Charlot. Limited edition, one of 1250. More
Histoire De J. Mc N. Whistler Et de son Oeuvre
Paris: H. Floury, 1904. Whistler, James M. First edition. Hardcover. 209 pages. 18 gravures hors texte, and with an abundance of additional illustrations. Written one year after Whistler's death, Duret sounds his critical acclaim, "the supreme gift of creating works alive by their profundity and beautiful by their form." A...... More
Les Peintres Impressionnistes; Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin
Paris: H. Floury, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 214 pages. 26 x 20 cm. Edition De Luxe. Frontispiece, 17 full page plates, numerous reproductions and 6 original etchings including Pissarro, "Les faneuses;" Sislely (by P.M. Roy) "Bords du Loing"; Renoir, "Femme nue assise"; Renoir, "Femme nue couchee"; Cezanne, "Portrait de Guillaumin";..... More
Anecdotes Of Painters Who Have Resided Or Been Born In England; With Critical Remarks On Their Productions
London: Leigh And Sotheby, 1808. First edition. leather_bound. 327 pages. 4to, 29 x 23 cm. Two lithographs by Gainsborough, one in color, and a host of engravings. Index of the Names of the Painters. The author, an historical painter was employed by Boydell to make drawings from the old masters..... More
The Modern Drawing 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art
New York: MOMA, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 216 pages. 31 x 24.5 cm. 100 color illustrations. Index of Artists with each plate accompanied by an in depth analysis by Elderfield. More
Marc Chagall
Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1957. Chagall, Marc. First edition. Hardcover. 160 pages in text. 25 x 21 cm. Twelve full-color plates, and sixty four plates in black and white. Signed by Chagall in blue pencil on title page. Text in German. By exploring the scenes of his life, his personal experiences..... More
Peintures En Relief De Hans Erni by Walter Ruegg
Geneve: Pierre Cailler, 1963. Erni, Hans. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 23 pages in text. 68 illustrations, three in color, all printed recto only. Limited edition, copy 25 of 50 with an original numbered etching 25/50 signed by Erni laid-in. Text translated from the German by P. Lafue. More
