Souvenirs De La Basse Bretagne
Paris: Np, ca. 1860. Hardcover. 14 x 10.5 cm. 25 hand-coiored lithographed plates in accordion (leperello) format. Plates bright and sharp. More
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American Lithographers 1900-1960; The Artists and Their Printers
Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 228 pages. 31 x 24 cm. 118 black and white plates and 9 color plates. Index. An historical review of 20th century American lithography by the director of the Tamarind Institute. More
The Sir Roger Coverley Papers
New York: LimitedEditions Club, 1945. Hardcover. 252 pp. 8vo, color illustrations by Gorndon Ross. Prefactory notes by William Makepeace Thackeray.Limited edition, copy 214 of 1500, and signed by Ross. NEWMAN & WICHE 172. More
The 20th-Century Poster; Design of the Avant-Garde
New York: Abbeville, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 215 pges. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Bibliography. Index. Produced under the auspices of the Walker Art Center, Mildred Friedman, Editor. Ex-library. More
Toulouse-Lautrec His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints
New York: Abrams, 1965. Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de. First edition. Hardcover. 370 pages. 38 pages in text. 368 illustrations, including fifty-four in full-color. Bibliography. Plates. The author, Curator of Prints at the Bibliotheque Nationale provides the first complete assemblage of Lautrec's work in lithography and drypoint. It includes fine prints, posters..... More
Album Boileau de 23 Eaux Fortes
Paris: Np, 1891. leather_bound. Unpaginated. 32.5 x 25 cm. Original watercolor title page by J. Ostolle, text lettered in gilt. Twenty three full page etchings with lettered tissue guards by French academic painters. Frontispiece by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard with additional full page contributions by Alexander Cabanel, Leon Bonnat, Charles De Lort..... More
The Engraved Work of F.L. Griggs, A.R.A., R.E. Etchings & Dry-Points 1912-1928
Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1928. Griggs, F.L. First edition. Hardcover. 93 pages. 30 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 315 of 325. Index of Titles. Bibliography. Bright, very fresh copy. More
Henry Alken's Scrap Book
London: Thomas McLean, 1824. Alken, Henry. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 26 x 18 cm. No text, 20 engraved color plates printed recto only, depciting heads of people and animals, hunting scenes, dog and cock fights. One of the scarcer scrapbooks by Alken. Minor rubbing to boards, some marginal toning and..... More
Sporting Scrap Book
London: Thomas McLean, [1824]. Alken, Henry. First edition. Hardcover. No text. 27 x 19 cm. 50 hand-colored plates, many with multiple images, of the fifty plates, twenty are full paged sporting scenes, well drawn and nicely coloured, and printed on heavy paper. All plates printed recto only. Bright, clean copy..... More
Jorrocks's Jaunts And Jollities; Being The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eating. Eccentric And Extravagant Exploits Of That Renowned Sporting Citizen, Mr. John Jorrocks, Etc..
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1843. Alken, Henry. Second edition. Hardcover. 358 pages. 21 x 14.2 cm. First edition with colored plates -- 15 hand-colored aquatint plates, including the engraved title vignette. Each plate marked, drawn and etched by H. Alken (except the title which does not bear his name).TOOLEY 471. "First..... More
Impressions of Uniyo-Ye The School of the Japanese Colour-Print Artists
San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 75 pages. Fourteen illustrations. Index. An early work and critical review of the Japanese colour-print artists. 2nd copy ex-library. More
Andersen Kalender 1911; Translated by Hugo Salus
Vienna: Munk, 1911. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 24 unnumbered pages. 31 x 26 cm. Twelve Jugendstil full page color designs by the brother-in-laws, Heinrich Lefler and Josef Urban, each plate surrounded by wide decorative borders of flowers, animals, crests and other motifs relating to the image -- enhanced by platinum..... More
Tapies Catalogue raisonne: Vols.1-4, 1943-1981
Paris & Barcelona: Editions Cercle D'Art & Ediciones Poligrafa, 1996. Tapies, Antoni. First edition. Hardcover. Square folio: Vol.1. 1943-1960, 545pp, 133 plates in color, and 850 illustrations in black and white. Vol.2. 1961-1968, 512pp, 189 plates in color, and 1027 illustrations in black and white. Vol.3. 1969-1975, 576pp, 233 plates..... More
The Prints of Ellsworth Kelly A Catalogue Raisonne 1949-1985
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1987. Kelly, Ellsworth. First edition. Hardcover. 200 pages. 29.5 x 23.5 cm. Kelly did not return to printmaking fervently until 1970. Illustrated with 159 color plates and 182 duotones. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form. Chronology. Glossary. Bibliography. Index... More
Le Peche Veniel Conte Drolatique
Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1922. Original Wraps. 4to, with brilliant color illustrations by J. Hamman. Limited edition, copy 450 of 590 on velin de cuve paper. Text in French. More
Les Contes Drolatiques; Colligez Ez Abbayes De Touraine -- Dixieme Edition Illustree de 425 Dessins Par Gustave Dore
Paris: Garnier Freres, Nd. Dore, Gustave. Dixieme edition. Hardcover. [XXXI] 614 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Originally published 1855. Bookplate, original wrappers bound in, bright and fresh copy with images sharp, slight extremity rubbing, backstrip decorated and lettered in gilt. GORDON N. RAY, 244. "This is Dore's early masterpiece; indeed..... More
Demons * Imps * & Fiends; Drawings By Leonard Baskin
Northampton: The Gehenna Press, 1976. Baskin, Leonard. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 29.5 x 21 cm. Limited edition, hand numbered copy 153 of 450 "printed on various interesting papers during the autumn of 1976." Printed by Harold McGrath. Nineteen, mostly full page portraits printed recto only on papers of various thickness and..... More
Drawings For The Iliad
New York: Delphic Arts, 1963. Baskin, Leonard. Hardcover. Sixty black and white lithographs 26 1/4 x 20 inches each plate numbered in blind at plate bottom on Fabriano paper in an edition of ninety by the Meridian Gravure Company. Apparently an extra suite of plates not issued with a portfolio..... More
German Scenery From Drawings made in 1820, By Captain Batty, of the Grenadier Guards, F.R.S.
London: Rodwell & Martin, 1825. First edition. board_book. Unpaginated. 27 1/2 x 18 1/2 cm. Sixty-two steel plates (with tissue guards), including vignette title and frontispiece, engraved by Heath, Owen, Lacey et al. Plate Index . Bound without letterpress title. Each plate described in English (recto) and French (verso). Batty..... More
War Art And Society One
Boston: Boston Book & Art, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 96 pages. 115 color and blackand white plates. One of a series of books based on exhibitions by the Welsh Arts Council. Well illustrated and poignant. More
American Prints in The Library of Congress A Catalog of the Collection
Baltimore: John Hopkins, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 568 pages. 25 1/2 x 21 1/2 cm. More than 1600 illustrations. Introduction by Alan Fern. Foreword by Carl Zigrosser. Bibliography. Geographical Index. Name Index. Approximately 12,000 prints from colonial times to the present representing the work of 1250 artists. KARPEL K301. "The..... More
A Collector's Guide to Paper Money
New York: Stein & Day, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. With more than 100 black and white photographs and eight color plates. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. More
Hall Of The New York Stock Exchange
New York: Np, ca 1880. Berghaus, Albert. 21 x 18 inches (image) of Architectural hand-colored drawing framed, signed in the plate at lower left. Albert Berghaus, an important American illustrator, active 1869-1880, produced sketches and engravings of the news of the day for "Frank Leslies Weekly." Original works by Berghaus..... More